Mineral favorability mapping: A comparison of artificial neural networks, logistic regression, and discriminant analysis

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 93-109

  Harris, DeVerle ^a   Pan, Guocheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GeoSight Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision theory; Mineral exploration; Modeling; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001858551     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021886501912     Document Type: Review

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