Relative efficiency of single-outlier discordancy tests for processing geochemical data on reference materials and application to instrumental calibrations by a weighted least-squares linear regression model

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-49

  Verma, Surendra P ^a   Díaz González, Lorena ^a   González Ramírez, Rosalinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Consecutive tests; Dixon tests; Grubbs tests; Kurtosis; Outlier based methods; Reference materials; Robust methods; Skewness; X ray fluorescence spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249156470     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2009.00885.x     Document Type: Article

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