Principal curves : learning, design, and applications

The subjects of this thesis are unsupervised learning in general, and principal curves in particular. Principal curves were originally defined by Hastie [Has84] and Hastie and Stuetzle [HS89] (hereafter HS) to formally capture the notion of a smooth curve passing through the "middle" of a...

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Main Author: Kégl, Balázs
Format: Others
Published: 1999
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/956/1/NQ47714.pdf
Kégl, Balázs <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Ke==0301gl=3ABala==0301zs=3A=3A.html> (1999) Principal curves : learning, design, and applications. PhD thesis, Concordia University.