Water quality assessment of a tropical coastal lake system using multivariate cluster, principal component and factor analysis

Lakes and Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-159

  Sheela, A M ^a   Letha, J ^b   Joseph, S ^c   Chacko, M ^c   Sanal kumar, S P ^c   Thomas, J ^c  

^a Directorate of Environment and Climate Change   (India)

^b Directorate of Technical Education   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

Akkulam Veli Lake; Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Multivariate analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAKE WATER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

AKKULAM LAKE; INDIA; KERALA; VELI LAKE;

EID: 84862319516     PISSN: 13205331     EISSN: 14401770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1770.2012.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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