D.G. Frey and E.S. Deevey review 1: Numerical tools in palaeolimnology - Progress, potentialities, and problems

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 307-332

  Birks, H J B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Hypothesis testing; Permutation tests; Stratigraphical data analysis; Time series analysis; Weighted averaging partial least squares

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

EID: 0032414329     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008038808690     Document Type: Article

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