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Fitting a Gaussian Model to Aperture Synthesis Data by Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Masato Ishiguro  and
Makio Ishiguro
Masato Ishiguro
Affiliation:
The Research Institute of Atmospherics, Nagoya University, Toyokawa, 442Japan
Makio Ishiguro
Affiliation:
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

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The problem of determining the optimum number of components in fitting a Gaussian model to aperture synthesis data is considered. As a measure of the badness of the fitted model, we propose the use of Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC).

Type
Part VI: Other Image Improvement Methods
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 49: Image Formation from Coherence Functions in Astronomy , 1979 , pp. 277 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979

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