An advanced multivariate statistical approach to study coastal sediment data

Central European Journal of Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-80

  Simeonova, Pavlina ^a   Sarbu, Costel ^b   Spanos, Thomas ^c   Simeonov, Vasil ^d   Tsakovski, Stefan ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Chemometrics; Coastal sediments; Fuzzified principal components analysis; Marine pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750925701     PISSN: 18951066     EISSN: 16443624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11532-005-0005-x     Document Type: Article

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