Application of Environmetric Methods to Surface Water Quality Assessment of Langkawi Geopark (Malaysia)

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 230-239

  Aris, Ahmad Zaharin ^a   Praveena, Sarva Mangala ^b   Isa, Noorain Mohd ^a   Lim, Wan Ying ^a   Juahir, Hafizan ^a   Yusoff, Mohd Kamil ^a   Mustapha, Adamu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UPM   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

cluster analysis, discriminant analysis; principal component analysis; surface water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882286540     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2013.814176     Document Type: Article

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