Classification of glass fragments based on elemental composition and refractive index

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-59

  Zadora, Grzegorz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Forensic sciences; Glass; GRIM; Likelihood ratio; Na ve Bayes Classifiers; SEM EDX; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 58149186846     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00905.x     Document Type: Article

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