Archive for October, 2012
When observations do not fit into tradition
Posted by astroclad in Classification on October 1, 2012
I have mentioned several times that the Hubble classification is a traditional approach of classification that is not adapted to modern data. I have also noticed that in the astrophysical literature modern statistical tools of clustering are often used in the sole purpose of retrieving the Hubble sequence without using the eyes. Or course, this […]