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Reference Samples of Rocks ‐ The Search for “Best Values”
Author(s) -
ABBEY SYDNEY,
MEEDS R.A.,
BELANGER P.G.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
geostandards newsletter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-908X
pISSN - 0150-5505
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-908x.1979.tb00250.x
Subject(s) - yield (engineering) , raw data , transformation (genetics) , cluster (spacecraft) , statistics , computer science , reading (process) , information retrieval , data mining , mathematics , chemistry , linguistics , materials science , programming language , biochemistry , metallurgy , gene , philosophy
Because of the disparate data, reported in collaborative analyses of reference samples of rooks, various methods have been proposed for deriving “best values”. This work compares those methods and several additional ones. Included are two simplified estimates of “mode” which yield values close to those of the Dominant Cluster and Gamma Transformation methods. An example is also cited of the hazards that may result from too superficial reading of raw data.