The Estimation of the Gradient of a Density Function, with Applications in Pattern Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1975, Pages 32-40

  Fukunaga, Keinosuke ^a   Hostetler, Larry D ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL METHODS;

DENSITY GRADIENTS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0016421071     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.1975.1055330     Document Type: Article

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