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A coarse Bayesian approach to evaluate luminescence ages

Geochronometria
Volume 40 (2013): Issue 2 (June 2013)
By: Antoine Zink  
Open Access
|Mar 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-013-0105-x | Journal eISSN: 1897-1695
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Published on: Mar 16, 2013
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Keywords:
Luminescence dating,
Bayesian statistics,
age equation
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