Reconciliation of mineral processing data containing correlated measurement errors

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 201-215

  Hodouin, Daniel ^a   Mirabedini, Azar ^a   Makni, Sami ^a   Bazin, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data filtering; Data reconciliation; Error covariance; Flotation; Mass balance; Sampling errors

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR COMPENSATION; FLOTATION; FUNCTIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

DATA FILTERING; DATA RECONCILIATION; MATERIAL CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS;

MINERAL INDUSTRY;

EID: 0032139669     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-7516(98)00012-x     Document Type: Article

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