A statistical approach to persistent homology

Homology, Homotopy and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 337-362

  Bubenik, Peter ^a   Kim, Peter T ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directional statistics; Expected persistent homology; Parametric statistics; Persistent homology; Point cloud data

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849007580     PISSN: 15320073     EISSN: 15320081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/HHA.2007.v9.n2.a12     Document Type: Article

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