Robust nonfitting way to determine mass diffusivity and initial concentration for VOCs in building materials with accuracy estimation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 9086-9092

  Li, Min ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; NORMAL APPROXIMATION; RANDOM UNCERTAINTIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; WELL-POSED PROBLEMS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; DIFFUSIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MASS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84882580779     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401244g     Document Type: Article

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