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Creating computer code to do this is non-trivial....it's like creating a
special form of OCR software....for reading lines instead of black dots.
It took about 4 years of incredibly complex code to finally make OCR
reliable enough to be useful.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Vedder [mailto:bved01@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:59 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Pattern Recognition: Head and Shoulders
>
>
> There has been some interest in pattern recognition on the list
> lately. In that vein, some folks at the NY Fed have published quite a
> bit of work looking at the "head and shoulders" pattern. Carol Osler
> has been doing this since 1994, at least. If interested (the few, the
> proud, the brave...) follow this link:
>
> http://www.frbsf.org/system/fedinprint/index.html
>
> Enter "osler" in the AUTHOR section of the search input (or try
> "shoulder" in the KEYWORD section). It should take you to a list of
> about 4 or 5 of her papers. I know the 1998 paper is available online in
> pdf format. The others (and they appear more interesting) will probably
> require a trip to the library.
>
> It might be interesting to see, at least, how they go about defining the
> pattern. They may even show some computer code, eh?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Bill Vedder
>
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