Visualization of multivariate density estimates with level set trees

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 599-620

  Klemelä, Jussi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Exploratory data analysis; Mixtures; Mode detection; Multivariate data

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344586679     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186004X2642     Document Type: Article

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