The detection of local shape changes via the geometry of hotelling's T2 fields

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 925-942

  Cao, Jin ^a   Worsley, Keith J ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Euler characteristic; Excursion set; Hotelling's T2; Local extrema; Random fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033248625     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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