Application of chemometric techniques in the assessment of groundwater pollution in a suburban area of Chennai city, India

Current Science

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1012-1022

  Kumar, A Ramesh ^a   Riyazuddin, P ^b  

^a Chemical Laboratory   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Factor analysis; Groundwater pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949086518     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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