Surface water pollution source identification using principal component and factor analysis in Getsi River, Kano, Nigeria

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1507-1512

  Mustapha, Adamu ^a   Nabegu, Aliyu Baba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KANO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Industrial effluent discharge; Kano metropolitan; Nigeria; Principal component analysis Factor analysis; River Getsi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856474513     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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