End-member modeling of compositional data: Numerical-statistical algorithms for solving the explicit mixing problem

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 503-549

  Weltje, Gert Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Constrained weighted least squares; Inversion; Linear mixing model

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL DATA; INVERSION; LINEAR MIXING MODEL;

EID: 0031450970     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02775085     Document Type: Article

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