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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 953848, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/953848
Research Article

Applying Hierarchical Bayesian Neural Network in Failure Time Prediction

Ling-Jing Kao1 and Hsin-Fen Chen2

1Department of Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, 10608, Taiwan
2Graduate Institute of Industrial and Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, 10608, Taiwan

Received 31 December 2011; Accepted 21 February 2012

Academic Editor: Jung-Fa Tsai

Copyright © 2012 Ling-Jing Kao and Hsin-Fen Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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