Application of fuzzy clustering to data dealing with phytotoxicity

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-49

  Melcher, Dirk ^a   Matthias, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Fuzzy logic; Toxicology; TOXSCREEN

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001896910     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(95)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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