Clustering of 3D spatial points using maximum likelihood estimator over voronoi tessellations: Study of the galaxy distribution in redshift space

Proceedings - 3rd International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering 2006, ISVD 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 112-121

  Pizarro, Daniel ^a   Campusano, Luis E ^a   Clowes, Roger G ^b   Virgili, Patrizzio ^a   Hitschfeld Kahler, Nancy ^a   Söchting, Ilona K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELONGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BACKGROUND NOISE; GALAXY DISTRIBUTION; REDSHIFT SPACE; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34250318624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISVD.2006.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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