Short communication: The Wasserstein distance as a dissimilarity metric for comparing detrital age spectra  and other geological distributions

Lipp, Alex; Vermeesch, Pieter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-263-2023

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-263-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-263-2023

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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

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17 May 2023

Short communication/technical note |

| 17 May 2023

Short communication: The Wasserstein distance as a dissimilarity metric for comparing detrital age spectra and other geological distributions

Alex Lipp and Pieter Vermeesch

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