On regression method to obtain emission parameters of building materials

Building and Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1282-1287

  He, Guoqing ^a   Yang, Xudong ^a  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Data abundance; Diffusion coefficient; Measurement error; Non linear regression; Partition coefficient

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

LEAST-SQUARE REGRESSION; MODEL PREDICTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; REGRESSION METHOD;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL;

EID: 20544446354     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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