Maximum Likelihood Instead of Least Squares in Fracture Analysis by Means of a Simple Excel Sheet with VBA Macro

This technical note illustrates a linear regression algorithm based on the Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), with a related Excel spreadsheet and VBA program, adapted to the case of fracture aperture data sets in which sampling of the smallest values is problematic. The method has been tested by...

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Main Author: Vincenzo Guerriero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-12-01
Series:Geosciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/13/12/379