Spatial variation assessment of malacca river water quality using multivariate statistical analysis

Malaysian Applied Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-18

  Rosli, S Nurshafazillah ^a   Aris, Ahmad Zaharin ^a   Majid, Nik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Principal component analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946192328     PISSN: 01268643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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