Assessment and Modelling of Groundwater Quality Data by Environmetric Methods in the Context of Public Health

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3257-3278

  Papaioannou, Agelos ^a   Dovriki, Eleni ^a   Rigas, Nikolaos ^a   Plageras, Panagiotis ^a   Rigas, Ioannis ^a   Kokkora, Maria ^b   Papastergiou, Panagiotis ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Factor analysis; Groundwater pollution sources; Potable water quality; Public health

Indexed keywords

CHEMOMETRIC METHOD; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LATENT FACTOR; MATRIX; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCATTER PLOTS; T-TESTS; TOTAL VARIANCE; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; POTABLE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY;

GREECE; THESSALY;

EID: 77956177091     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9605-0     Document Type: Article

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