Application of rough sets analysis to identify polluted aquatic sites based on a battery of biomarkers: A comparison with classical methods

Chemosphere

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-23

  Chèvre, Nathalie ^a   Gagné, François ^a   Gagnon, Pierre ^a   Blaise, Christian ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Classification methods; Classification trees; Discriminant analysis; Rough sets analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; LIPIDS; ROUGH SET THEORY; TOXICITY;

TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS;

WATER POLLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; METALLOTHIONEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

BIOMARKER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL VIABILITY; CLAM; CLASSIFICATION; CONTAMINATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TECHNIQUE; WATER POLLUTION;

BIVALVIA; MYA ARENARIA;

EID: 0344838653     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00818-4     Document Type: Article

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