On score distributions and relevance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4425 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 40-51

  Robertson, Stephen ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INVERSE KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; STANDARD DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 37149029774     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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