On the Use of Logistic Regression for stellar classification. An application to colour-colour diagrams
arXiv:1805.09551 · doi:10.1007/s10686-018-9591-4
Abstract
We are totally immersed in the Big Data era and reliable algorithms and methods for data classification are instrumental for astronomical research. Random Forest and Support Vector Machines algorithms have become popular over the last few years and they are widely used for different stellar classification problems. In this article, we explore an alternative supervised classification method scarcely exploited in astronomy, Logistic Regression, that has been applied successfully in other scientific areas, particularly biostatistics. We have applied this method in order to derive membership probabilities for potential T Tauri star candidates from ultraviolet-infrared colour-colour diagrams.
arXiv comment16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ExpAst
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