An information-aware framework for exploring multivariate data sets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2683-2692

  Biswas, Ayan ^a   Dutta, Soumya ^a   Shen, Han Wei ^a   Woodring, Jonathan ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

framework; Information theory; isosurface; multivariate uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FRAMEWORK; INFORMATION CONTENTS; ISO SURFACE; MULTIVARIATE DATA SETS; MULTIVARIATE UNCERTAINTY; PARALLEL COORDINATES; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

GRAPH THEORY; INTERFACE STATES;

INFORMATION THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886507934     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.133     Document Type: Article

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