Particle sizes from sectional data

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 216-224

  Pawlas, Zbyněk ^a   Nyengaard, Jens R ^b   Jensen, Eva B Vedel ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Local stereology; Particle size distribution; Star shaped sets; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; LOCAL STEREOLOGY; PARTICLE SHAPE; PARTICLES SIZES; PARTICLES-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; STAR-SHAPED SETS; STEREOLOGY; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

PARTICLE SIZE;

DATA INTERPRETATION; PARTICLE SIZE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 62749116029     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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