Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9458773 | Atmospheric Environment | 2005 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
The robustness of the PMF model was tested by using randomly reduced data sets, where 85%, 70%, 50% and 33% of the samples were included. In this way the ability of the model to reconstruct the sources initially found by the original data set could be tested. On average for all sources the relative standard deviation increased from 7% to 25% for the variables identifying the sources, when decreasing the data set from 85% to 33% of the samples, indicating that the solution initially found was very stable to begin with. But it was also noted that sources due to industrial or combustion processes were more sensitive for the size of the data set, compared to the natural sources as local soil and sea spray sources.
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Authors
Emma Hedberg, Lars Gidhagen, Christer Johansson,