ArborZ: Photometric redshifts using boosted decision trees

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 715, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 823-832

  Gerdes, David W ^a   Sypniewski, Adam J ^a   McKay, Timothy A ^a   Hao, Jiangang ^a,c   Weis, Matthew R ^a   Wechsler, Risa H ^b   Busha, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: statistics; Large scale structure of universe; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952862619     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/823     Document Type: Article

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