The long-solved problem of the best-fit straight line: application to isotopic mixing lines
It has been almost 50 years since York published an exact and general solution for the best-fit straight line to independent points with normally distributed errors in both <i>x</i> and <i>y</i>. York's solution is highly cited in the geophysical literature but almost un...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2017-01-01
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Series: | Biogeosciences |
Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/14/17/2017/bg-14-17-2017.pdf |