SIPVADE: A new computer programme with seventeen statistical tests for outlier detection in evaluation of international geochemical reference materials and its application to whin sill dolerite WS-E from England and soil-5 from Peru

Geostandards Newsletter

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-234

  Verma, Surendra P ^a   Orduña Galván, Leonides Javier ^a   Guevara, Mirna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Compilation; Outlier rejection; Reference material; Soil 5; Statistical analysis; WS E

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000988323     PISSN: 01505505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.1998.tb00695.x     Document Type: Article

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