Some simple guides to finding useful information in exploration geochemical data

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-147

  Singer, Donald A ^a   Kouda, Ryoichi ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Censored data; Geochemical data analysis; Supervised learning; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141621316     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011552810482     Document Type: Article

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