Massive lossless data compression and multiple parameter estimation from galaxy spectra

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 317, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 965-972

  Heavens, Alan F ^a   Jimenez, Raul ^a   Lahav, Ofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: statistics; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX;

DATA SET; GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; GALAXIES: STATISTICS; LOSSLESS; LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SPECTRA'S;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0000814064     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03692.x     Document Type: Article

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