Discrimination with Many Variables

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1320-1329

  Brown, P J ^a   Fearn, T ^b   Haque, M S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Cross validation; Discrimination; Gaussian processes; Hierarchical covariances; Scoring rules; Smoothing; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325069     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473884     Document Type: Article

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