Visualizing "typical" and "exotic" Internet traffic data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3721-3743

  Kafadar, Karen ^a   Wegman, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational methods; Exploratory data analysis; Graphical displays; Logarithmic transformation; Recursive computation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER CRIME; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CYBERATTACKS; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATION; RECURSIVE COMPUTATION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 33646914431     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.06.017     Document Type: Article

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