‎This paper has two aims. The first is forecasting inflation in Iran using Macroeconomic variables data in Iran (Inflation rate, liquidity, GDP, prices of imported goods and exchange rates) , and the second is comparing the performance of forecasting vector auto regression (VAR), Bayesian Vector-Autoregressive (BVAR), GARCH, time series and neural network models by which Iran's inflation is for...

Network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. These models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. In a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. If the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

results survival probabilities at different times were determined using the cox proportional hazards and a neural network with three nodes in the hidden layer; the ratios of standard errors with these two methods to the kaplan-meier method were 1.1593 and 1.0071, respectively, revealed a significant difference between cox and kaplan-meier (p < 0.05) and no significant difference between cox and...

one of the most important issues always facing banks and financial institutes is the issue of credit risk or the possibility of failure in the fulfillment of obligations by applicants who are receiving credit facilities. the considerable number of banks’ delayed loan payments all around the world shows the importance of this issue and the necessary consideration of this topic. accordingly, many...