Data mining and machine learning in astronomy

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1049-1106

  Ball, Nicholas M ^a   Brunner, Robert J ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

astroinformatics; astrostatistics; Data mining; knowledge discovery in databases; machine learning; Virtual Observatory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955253091     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271810017160     Document Type: Article

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