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TREE ring dating of samples of wood of unknown age is usually accomplished by optical matching of graphed tree ring thickness data. Optical matching works well with large samples of gymnosperm wood the ring thicknesses of which vary widely from year to year. Small samples of less ‘sensitive’ hard woods may be more reliably dated if, for each possible date, the product-moment correlation coefficient is computed between the unknown and known tree ring vectors.
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HOWLAND, H., SHARROCK, G. & RASKIN, J. A Digital Computer Method for Dating Short Tree Ring Series. Nature 201, 412–413 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201412a0
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