Compositional data analysis for elemental data in forensic science

Forensic Science International

Volumn 188, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 81-90

  Campbell, Gareth P ^a   Curran, James M ^a   Miskelly, Gordon M ^a   Coulson, Sally ^b   Yaxley, Gregory M ^c   Grunsky, Eric C ^d   Cox, Simon C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MT ALBERT RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compositional data analysis; Forensic science; ICP MS; Nephrite

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 67349214093     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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