Information-theoretical feature selection using data obtained by Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with and Energy Dispersive X-ray spectrometer for the classification of glass traces

Analytica Chimica Acta

Volumn 705, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 207-217

  Ramos, Daniel ^a   Zadora, Grzegorz ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Empirical Cross Entropy; Feature selection; Forensic evaluation of the evidence; Glass classification; Likelihood ratio; Physico chemical multivariate data; SEM EDX

Indexed keywords

CROSS ENTROPY; FORENSIC EVALUATION; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; SEM-EDX;

CALIBRATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; GLASS; INFORMATION THEORY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

GLASS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CALIBRATION; CAR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMPIRICAL CROSS ENTROPY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROMETER; ENTROPY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GLASS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 80053384650     PISSN: 00032670     EISSN: 18734324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2011.05.029     Document Type: Article

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