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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Main Authors: R. Wehr, S. R. Saleska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/14/17/2017/bg-14-17-2017.pdf