Model estimations biased by truncated expansions: Possible artifacts in seismic tomography

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5253, 1996, Pages 1257-1260

  Trampert, Jeannot ^a   Snieder, Roel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS; EXPANSION; LEAKAGE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRUNCATION;

EID: 0029730021     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5253.1257     Document Type: Article

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