Application of factor analysis in the assessment of groundwater quality in a blackfoot disease area in Taiwan

CW Liu, KH Lin, YM Kuo - Science of the total environment, 2003 - Elsevier
Factor analysis is applied to 28 groundwater samples collected from wells in the coastal
blackfoot disease area of Yun-Lin, Taiwan. Correlations among 13 hydrochemical …

A novel hybrid method of specific vulnerability to anthropogenic pollution using multivariate statistical and regression analyses

G Busico, N Kazakis, E Cuoco, N Colombani… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Groundwater resources are the main supply of freshwater for human activities. However, in
the last fifty years aquifers have become more susceptible to chemical pollution due to …

Assessing groundwater quality and health risks of nitrogen pollution in the Shenfu mining area of Shaanxi Province, northwest China

H Su, W Kang, Y Xu, J Wang - Exposure and health, 2018 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to evaluate groundwater quality and health risks of nitrogen
pollution in the Shenfu mining area of northwest China. Statistical analysis, Durov diagrams …

Multivariate statistical analysis to characterize/discriminate between anthropogenic and geogenic trace elements occurrence in the Campania Plain, Southern Italy

G Busico, E Cuoco, N Kazakis, N Colombani… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Shallow aquifers are the most accessible reservoirs of potable groundwater; nevertheless,
they are also prone to various sources of pollution and it is usually difficult to distinguish …

Delineation of isotopic and hydrochemical evolution of karstic aquifers with different cluster-based (HCA, KM, FCM and GKM) methods

E Eskandari, H Mohammadzadeh, H Nassery… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a combination of isotopic and hydrogeochemical data of a karstic region was
clustered with four distinct clustering analysis (CA) methods to study water evolution in a …

A long-term study of temporal hydrochemical data in a shallow lake using multivariate statistical techniques

G Papatheodorou, G Demopoulou, N Lambrakis - Ecological Modelling, 2006 - Elsevier
The multivariate statistical techniques R-and Q-mode factor analysis and discriminant
analysis were applied to a dataset containing physicochemical parameters in lake water …

Multivariate statistical analysis for the assessment of groundwater quality under different hydrogeological regimes

N Kazakis, C Mattas, A Pavlou, O Patrikaki… - Environmental Earth …, 2017 - Springer
Multivariate statistical analysis has been widely used for hydrogeochemical characterization
of groundwater quality. In this study, hydrochemical data from three hydrological basins …

Groundwater quality in the semi‐arid region of the Chahardouly basin, West Iran

AT Tizro, KS Voudouris - Hydrological Processes: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Chahardouly basin is located in the western part of Iran and is characterized by semi‐arid
climatic conditions and scarcity in water resources. The main aquifer systems are developed …

Application of multivariate statistical procedures to the hydrochemical study of a coastal aquifer: an example from Crete, Greece

G Papatheodorou, N Lambrakis… - Hydrological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of multivariate statistical procedures were applied to three separate sets of
quantitative analytical data from a coastal aquifer located in Malia, Crete (Greece), in order …

Hydrogeochemical analysis for Tasuj plain aquifer, Iran

AA Nadiri, AA Moghaddam, FTC Tsai… - Journal of earth system …, 2013 - Springer
This study investigated the hydrogeochemical processes of groundwater in the Tasuj plain,
Iran. The Tasuj plain is one of the 12 marginal plains around Urmia Lake which is currently …