Application of discriminant analysis with clustered data to determine anthropogenic metals contamination

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-56

  Anderson, R H ^a   Farrar, D B ^a   Thoms, S R ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Environmental site assessment; Finite mixtures; Metal contamination; Model based clustering

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC METALS; BULK SOILS; CHEMICAL CLUSTERS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENTS; FINITE MIXTURE MODELS; FINITE MIXTURES; METAL CONTAMINATION; MILITARY INSTALLATIONS; MODEL-BASED CLUSTERING; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REFERENCE SOIL; RELATIVE ORDER; SITE INVESTIGATIONS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

CONTAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); METAL ANALYSIS; METALLOIDS; METALS; MIXTURES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS; SMELTING; SOILS; SURVEYS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

METAL;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350619345     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.019     Document Type: Article

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