HelioPlot, and the treatment of overdispersed (U-Th-Sm)/He data

Chemical Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 108-111

  Vermeesch, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(U Th) He; Geochronology; Software; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISPERSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EID: 77549087533     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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