Mixture Models For Exploratory Data Analysis
Mixture Models For Exploratory Data Analysis
Mixture Models For Exploratory Data Analysis
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The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed a method to automatically discover and evaluate candidate mathematical models within unstructured data and classify each data point with a probability of fitting each discovered model. A model may be any mathematical shape, including closed curves and geometric shapes, general functions such as Gaussians, polynomials, exponentials, or transcendentals, or any combination of the above. Once a set of models is determined to fit the data set, a probability may be assigned to each data point to measure the likelihood that a given point belongs to a particular function, i.e. that it is consistent with that model. A classification of these points may be derived from these probabilities. This analytical tool is intended for data mining and visual analysis of large, complex data sets in the intelligence community. It has been used with GIS data, weather data, crime data, and other multivariate data sets as well. This software is coded in C++ and is available for commercialization.
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