The Box-Cox metric for Nearest Neighbour classification improvement

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 273-279

  Van Der Heiden, R ^a   Groen, F C A ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Discrimination; Metric; Nearest Neighbour method; Radar; Range profiles; Target recognition

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR;

BOX-COX METRIC; BOX-COX TRANSFORMATION; DISCRIMINATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR CLASSIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031061906     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00077-5     Document Type: Article

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