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Although modelling is all about understanding a suite of rocks and relating observations to variables in a model (Chap. 22), some useful numerical tricks are important to keep in mind. Most relate to the fact that the composition of a rock can be seen as a vector in an n-dimension space (n being the number of elements in consideration). Some of these tricks are discussed here.
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Janoušek, V., Moyen, JF., Martin, H., Erban, V., Farrow, C. (2016). Numerical Tips and Tricks. In: Geochemical Modelling of Igneous Processes – Principles And Recipes in R Language. Springer Geochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46792-3_23
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