AgeDisplay: An EXCEL workbook to evaluate and display univariate geochronological data using binned frequency histograms and probability density distributions

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-31

  Sircombe, Keith N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data display; Geochronology; Histogram; Probability density distribution

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FREQUENCY HISTOGRAMS; GAUSSIAN KERNEL METHOD;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HISTOGRAM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPREADSHEET;

EID: 0942291278     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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