Practical statistics for astronomers - II. Correlation, data-modelling and sample comparison

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 519-563

  Wall, J V ^a  

^a ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

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