Critical values for 33 discordancy test variants for outliers in normal samples up to sizes 1000, and applications in quality control in Earth Sciences

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-96

  Verma, Surendra P ^a   Quiroz Ruiz, Alfredo ^a   Díaz González, Lorena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

2s method; ANN; Arti cial neural network; BCR 1; Critical values; Dixon tests; Kuriosis; Monte Carlo simulation; Nd isotopes; Normal sample; Outlier methods; Petroleum hydrocarbon; Reference materials; Skewness; Statistics; Two standard deviation method

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249083194     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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