Application of principal component and factor analysis to evaluate groundwater quality

Annual Proceedings Soil and Crop Science Society of Florida

Volumn 64, Issue , 2005, Pages 35-44

  Ouyang, Y ^a   Mansell, R S ^b   Ou, L T ^b  

^a ST JOHNS RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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