Center selection for RBF neural network in prediction of nonlinear time series

This paper presents a new method for center selection of radial basis function (RBF) neural network. The proposed method endows a parallel quality on the process of center selection and takes advantage of the time sequential relation among time series data. Stock price prediction simulation shows that, compared with hard c-means (HCM) and orthogonal least square (OLS) RBF neural network, our method has not only better training and testing precisions, but also better generalization ability.