Comparison of two approaches to modeling atmospheric aerosol particle size distributions

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 392-410

  Ždímal, Vladimír ^a   Brabec, Marek ^b,c   Wagner, Zdeněk ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Gnostic theory of uncertain data; Lognormal mixture; Nonparametric modeling; Particle size distribution; Semiparametric modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849159209     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2008.11.0051     Document Type: Article

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