A comparison of the weights-of-evidence method and probabilistic neural networks

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 287-298

  Singer, Donald A ^a   Kouda, Ryoichi ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Geographic information systems (GIS); Resource assessment; Weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001393761     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021606417010     Document Type: Article

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