Statistical analyses of geochemical variables in soils of Ireland

Geoderma

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 378-390

  Zhang, Chaosheng ^a   Fay, Deirdre ^b   McGrath, David ^b   Grennan, Eamonn ^c   Carton, Owen T ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (Ireland)

^c Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data transformation; Multivariate analyses; Probability; Soil geochemistry; Statistical analyses

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODES (SYMBOLS); CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; EARTH SCIENCES; GARNETS; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METALS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUTRIENTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; DATA TRANSFORMATIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); GEOCHEMICAL VARIABLES; INFLUENCING FACTORS; IRELAND; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV (KS) TEST; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MINERAL SOILS; MOBILE ELEMENTS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIPLE FACTORS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (MVA); NATURAL FACTORS; NATURAL ORIGIN; PROBABILITY FEATURES; ROCK TYPES; SOIL TYPES; SURFACE SOILING;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA TRANSMISSION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; HISTOGRAM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTLIER; PROBABILITY; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48149089790     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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