A type of
neural network employing a
hidden layer of radial units and an output layer of
linear units , and characterized by reasonably fast training and reasonably compact networks. Introduced by Broomhead and Lowe (1988) and Moody and Darkin (1989), they are described in most good
neural network text books (e.g., Bishop, 1995; Haykin, 1994). See,
Neural Networks" .