DiatSOM: A R-package for diatom biotypology using self-organizing maps

Diatom Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-9

  Bottin, Marius ^a   Giraudel, Jean Luc ^b   Lek, Sovan ^c   Tison Rosebery, Juliette ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

biomathematics; biostatistics; biotypology; neural networks; package comparison; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894231423     PISSN: 0269249X     EISSN: 21598347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269249X.2013.804447     Document Type: Article

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