Multivariate fitting and the error matrix in global analysis of data

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Pumplin, J ^a   Stump, D R ^a   Tung, W K ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PARTON; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0036142597     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.014011     Document Type: Article

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