Detecting multivariate outliers in artefact compositional data

Archaeometry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-338

  Baxter, M J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artefact compositions; Cluster analysis; Mahalanobis distance; Outliers; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033169263     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1999.tb00986.x     Document Type: Article

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