Categorical Dimensions of Human Odor Descriptor Space Revealed by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Jason B. Castro; Arvind Ramanathan; Chakra S. Chennubhotla

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073289

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Categorical Dimensions of Human Odor Descriptor Space Revealed by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Jason B. Castro ,

* E-mail: jcastro@bates.edu (JBC); chakracs@pitt.edu (CSC)

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, United States of America, Program in Neuroscience, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, United States of America
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Arvind Ramanathan,

Affiliation Computational Data Analytics Group, Computational Science and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
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Chakra S. Chennubhotla

* E-mail: jcastro@bates.edu (JBC); chakracs@pitt.edu (CSC)

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Categorical Dimensions of Human Odor Descriptor Space Revealed by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Jason B. Castro,
Arvind Ramanathan,
Chakra S. Chennubhotla

Published: September 18, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073289

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