RETRACTED: Using a back propagation network combined with grey clustering to forecast policyholder decision to purchase investment-inked insurance

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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to significant overlap with two papers:Hsu, Ker-Tah, “Forecasting Policyholder's Purchase Decision of Investment-linked Insurance”, Journal of Risk Management, 11 (1), June 2009, pp. 63–94”Hsu Ker-Tah, Liu Wei-Ling, Yan Tzung-Ming, in Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems, and Intelligent Services, November 10–12, 2009, Nanjing, China, (ISBN: 978-1-4244-4916-3), 10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408080.One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.