Probability and Neural Networks

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Published on 2010-05-07T00:13:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 0:18 UTC
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Is it a good practice to use sigmoid or tanh output layers in Neural networks directly to estimate probabilities?

i.e the probability of given input is the output of sigmoid function in the NN

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