The ANN uses the data to develop an internal representation of the relationship between the variables,
and does not make assumptions about the nature of the distribution of the data. Another advantage is that while traditional
regression analysis is not adaptive, artificial neural networks readjust their weights as new input data becomes available
(Kuo and Reitch, 1994, Pao, 1989; Gilbert, Krishnaswamy, and Pashley, 2000).