Estimation of significance levels and confidence intervals for first-order reversal curve distributions

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Heslop, David ^a   Roberts, Andrew P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; First order reversal curves; Significance level

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS;

CHARACTERIZATION OF STRUCTURE; COERCIVITIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SETS; FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVES; INTERACTION FIELDS; MAGNETIC MINERALS; MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; MAGNETIC MINERAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861360642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004115     Document Type: Article

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