Generation of a Supervised Classification Algorithm for Time-Series Variable Stars with an Application to the LINEAR Dataset
@article{Johnston2016GenerationOA, title={Generation of a Supervised Classification Algorithm for Time-Series Variable Stars with an Application to the LINEAR Dataset}, author={Kyle B. Johnston and Hakeem M. Oluseyi}, journal={ArXiv}, year={2016}, volume={abs/1601.03769} }
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