Modeling and interpreting the accuracy assessment error matrix for a doubly classified map

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 357-373

  Patil, G P ^a   Taillie, C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity matrix; Kullback Liebler distance; Latent truth model; Producer's accuracy; Regularization; User's accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0141975767     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025163108959     Document Type: Article

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