A transparent and transferable framework for tracking quality information in large datasets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Derek E ^a   Metzger, Stefan ^a,b   Taylor, Jeffrey R ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETER; DATA MINING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATASETS AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84911468989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112249     Document Type: Article

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