Incremental quantile estimation for massive tracking

Proceeding of the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 516-522

  Chen, Fei ^a   Lambert, Diane ^a   Pinheiro, José C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SORTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

QUANTILE ESTIMATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 0034592760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/347090.347195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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