Multivariate data analysis of pollutant profiles: PCB levels across Europe

Chemosphere

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1300-1307

  Howel, Denise ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biplots; Compositional data; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BIPLOTS; COMPOSITIONAL DATA; MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE METHODS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PCB; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SUMMER; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

TETRA;

EID: 33846866505     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aitchison J. Reducing the dimensionality of compositional data sets. Mathematical Geology 16 (1984) 617-635
2. Aitchison J. The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data (1986), Chapman and Hall, London
3. Aitchison J. Measures of location of compositional data sets. Mathematical Geology 21 (1989) 787-790
4. Aitchison J. Relative variation diagrams for describing patterns of compositional variability. Mathematical Geology 22 (1990) 487-511
5. Aitchison J. On criteria for measures of compositional difference. Mathematical Geology 24 (1992) 365-379
6. Aitchison J., and Greenacre M. Biplots of compositional data. Applied Statistics 51 (2002) 375-392
7. Baldovin A., Wen W., Massart D.L., and Turello A. Regularised discriminant analysis (RDA) - Modelling for the binary discrimination between pollution types. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 38 (1997) 25-37
8. Baxter M.J., Beardah C.C., Cool H.E.M., and Jackson C.M. Compositional data analysis of some alkaline gases. Mathematical Geology 37 (2005) 183-196
9. Bonn B.A. Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran concentration profiles in sediment and fish tissue of the Willamette Basin Oregon. Environmental Science and Technology 32 (1998) 729-735
10. Cadima J., and Jolliffe I. Loadings and correlations in the interpretation of principal components. Journal of Applied Statistics 22 (1995) 203-214
11. Cox N.J. Speaking stata: graphing categorical and compositional data. Stata Journal 4 (2004) 190-215
12. Gullet B.K., Dunn J.E., Bae S.-K., and Raghunathan K. Effects of combustion parameters on polychlorinated dibenzodioxin and dibenzofuran homologue profiles from municipal waste and coal combustion. Waste Management 18 (1998) 473-483
13. Helsel D.R. Less than obvious: statistical treatment of data below the detection limit. Environmental Science and Technology 24 (1990) 1766-1774
14. Jaward F.M., Farrar N.J., Harner T., Sweetman A.J., and Jones K.C. Passive air sampling of PCBs, PBDEs and organochlorine pesticides across Europe. Environmental Science and Technology 38 (2004) 34-41
15. Krzanowski W.J. Principles of Multivariate Analysis (1988), Oxford University Press, Oxford
16. Lubin J.H., Colt J.S., Camann D., Davis S., Cerhan J.R., Severson R.K., Bernstein L., and Hartge P. Epidemiologic evaluation of measurement data in the presence of detection limits. Environmental Health Perspectives 112 (2004) 1691-1696
17. Martin-Fernandez J.A., Barcelo-Vidal C., and Pawlowsky-Glahn V. Measures of difference for compositional data and hierarchical clustering methods. In: Buccianti A., Nardi G., and Potenza R. (Eds). Annual conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (1998), Naploli, Italy 526-531
18. Martin-Fernandez J.A., Barcelo-Vidal C., and Pawlowsky-Glahn V. Dealing with zeros and missing values in compositional data sets using nonparametric imputation. Mathematical Geology 35 (2003) 253-278
19. Pawlowsky-Glahn V., and Olea R.A. Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data (2004), Oxford University Press, Oxford
20. Pearson K. Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution. On the form of spurious correlation which may arise when indices are used in the measurement of organs. Proceedings of the Royal Society 60 (1897) 489-498
21. Pless-Mulloli T., Edwards R., Howel D., Wood R., Paepke O., and Herrmann T. Does long term residency near industry have an impact on the body burden of Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, -furans and Polychlorinated biphenyls in older women. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 62 (2005) 895-901
22. Renner R.M., Glasby G.P., and Szefer P. Endmember analysis of heavy-metal pollution in surficial sediments from the Gulf of Gdansk and the southern Baltic Sea off Poland. Applied Geochemistry 13 (1998) 313-318
23. Reyment R.A., and Savazzi E. Aspects of Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Geology (1999), Elsevier, Amsterdam
24. Rollinson H.R. Using Geochemical Data: Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation (1993), Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow
25. Ross P.S., Jeffries S.J., Yunker M.B., Addison M.B., Ikonomou M.G., and Calambokidis J.C. Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in British Columbia, Canada and Washington State USA reveal a combination of local and global polychlorinated biphenyl, dioxin and furan signals. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23 (2004) 157-165
26. StataCorp., 2005. Stata statistical software. Release 9.0. Stata Corporation, College Station, TX.