Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis Self-Organizing Map (PPCASOM)
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The contents of this zip file are provided without any warranty. They are intended for evaluational purposes only.

The .a files are some precompiled static libraries which are needed to build the PPCASOM C MEX files under 32-bit Windows. They have been built with the gcc compiler under the Cygwin environment.
The .lib files are precompiled static libraries for building PPCASOM MEX files under 64-bit Windows.
The .mat file contains the training set of the '4' digit of the MNIST database, which comes from http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
The corresponding reference is:
Y. LeCun, L. Bottou, Y. Bengio, and P. Haffner. "Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition." Proceedings of the IEEE, 86(11):2278-2324, November 1998.

