Applied Multivariate Analysis in SAR and Environmental Studies (Eurocourses: Chemical and Environmental Science)

Based on the lectures given during the Eurocourse on [title] held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, June 1991. Reviews the state-of-the-art in multivariate analysis and gives an overview of the various fields of application in ecology, environmental chemistry, toxicology, risk analysis, and structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies. The introductory part of the book focuses on fundamental aspects of multivariate analysis, and is followed by a number of case studies which display the application of the various basic methods such as principal component analysis, correspondence factor analysis, discriminant analysis and neural networks. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.