Spurious clusters in granulometric data caused by logratio transformation

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 491-504

  Tauber, Franz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Grain size analysis; Median and sorting; Zero replacement

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULOMETRY;

EID: 0032768140     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007532222145     Document Type: Article

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