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On the complexity of some data analysis problems

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NP-completeness of certain discrete optimization problems is proved. These are the problems to which one can reduce some important problems arising in data analysis when certain subsets of vectors are sought.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Kel’manov, 2010, published in Zhurnal Vychislitel’noi Matematiki i Matematicheskoi Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. 2045–2051.

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Kel’manov, A.V. On the complexity of some data analysis problems. Comput. Math. and Math. Phys. 50, 1941–1947 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965542510110163

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