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Addition of noise was not found to seriously affect the performance of DISCRETE and CONTIN, however, a narrowing of the recovered radius distribution, attributable to the CONTIN feature of parsimony, was observed; It was concluded that although CONTIN results are affected by the breadth of the original radius distribution, an exact correspondence is hard to find.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Qazi, Usman Abdul Aziz"],"institution":"University of Nevada, Las Vegas","degree_name":"Master of Science (MS)","degree_level":"Thesis","degree_discipline":"Physics","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["J. C. Selser"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":1991,"date_issued":"1991-01-01T08:00:00Z","date_published":"1991-01-01T08:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:24:07Z","subjects":[],"languages":["English"],"rights":["IN COPYRIGHT. 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