Limitations of the L-curve method in ill-posed problems

BIT Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 287-301

  Hanke, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

L curve method; Regularization parameter; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542498779     PISSN: 00063835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01731984     Document Type: Article

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