Use of principal components analysis (PCA) on estuarine sediment datasets: The effect of data pre-treatment

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 2275-2281

  Reid, M K ^a   Spencer, K L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data pre treatment; Estuary; Metal; PCA; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA PRE-TREATMENT; DATA SETS; ENGLAND; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GRAIN SIZE; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; NORMALISATION; PCA; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESTUARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DATA SET; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; ESTUARY; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULOMETRY; HEAVY METAL; MINERALOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRANSFORMATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 68649128346     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.033     Document Type: Article

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