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[David Wolpert]

John Kruschke writes:

"One motive for using RBFs has been the promise of better interpolation
between training examples (i.e., better generalization). 
"

Whether or not RBFs result in "better interpolation" is one issue.
Whether or not they result in "better generalization" is another.
For some situations the two issues are intimately related, and
sometimes even identical.
For other situations they are not.



David Wolpert (dhw at tweety.lanl.gov)