Thermoluminescence glow curve deconvolution and its statistical analysis using the flexibility of spreadsheet programs

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 119, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 332-338

  van Dijk, J W E ^a  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP NRG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; RADIATION PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33749660933     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci517     Document Type: Article

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