Amultivariate statistical analysis of groundwater chemistry data

International Journal of Environmental Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 537-544

  Belkhiri, L ^a   Boudoukha, A ^a   Mouni, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATNA   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Ain azei plain; Algeria; Hydrochemistry; Multivariate techniques; Principal component analysis; Q mode hierarchical cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DATA SET; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALGERIA;

EID: 79955587665     PISSN: 17356865     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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