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Classification: Astronomical and Mathematical Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

F. Murtagh*
Affiliation:
Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility, European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany

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A short overview is presented of a number of different discriminant analysis methods. An ‘uncertainty principle’ is presented in regard to the issue of user choice of appropriate method. The discriminant analysis methods described are then used in the important problem of feature selection. A hand-classified set of HST Guide Star plate data is used, with star/galaxy/fault classes.

Type
Part Five: Image Detection, Cataloguing and Classification
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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