Period analysis of variable stars by robust smoothing

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-30

  Oh, Hee Seok ^a   Nychka, Doug ^b   Brown, Tim ^b   Charbonneau, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized cross validation; Period; Periodic function; Robust spline regression; Smoothing spline regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342303687     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2004.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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