Parallelizing Nonlinear Least-Squares Regression with Application to Analyses of Microalgae

Analytical Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 945-963

  Vogt, Frank ^a   Byrd, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental modeling; microalgae; nonlinear regression; parallel computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017560923     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2016.1207656     Document Type: Article

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