Finding hidden events in astrophysical data using PCA and Mixture of Gaussians clustering

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-22

  Funaro, Maria ^a   Marinaro, Maria ^a,b   Petrosino, Alfredo ^a,b   Scarpetta, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b Vietri sul Mare SA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrophysical data; Classification; Data analysis; Mixture of Gaussians; Pixel lensing; Principal Component Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036014757     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100440200002     Document Type: Article

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