A comparative study on various statistical techniques predicting ozone concentrations: Implications to environmental management

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 148, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 277-289

  Paschalidou, A K ^a   Kassomenos, P A ^a   Bartzokas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multicollinearity; Principal component analysis; Stepwise regression analysis; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GASES; METAL ANALYSIS; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

ATHENS , GREECE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; METROPOLITAN AREAS; MULTICOLLINEARITY; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE CONCENTRATIONS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; OZONE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GREECE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58049148390     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0158-0     Document Type: Article

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