Hunting for geochemical associations of elements: Factor analysis and self-organising maps

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 681-703

  Žibret, Gorazd ^a   Šajn, Robert ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Celje; Compositional data processing; Factor analysis; Heavy metals; Me ica; Self organising maps

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA PROCESSING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION;

EID: 77954955485     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-010-9288-3     Document Type: Article

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