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Problems in the fingerprints based polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons source apportionment analysis and a practical

Yonghong Zou1, Lixia Wang2, Erik R Christensen3

  • 1Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.

Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
|July 25, 2015
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Keywords:
BayesianFingerprintsPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)Positive matrix factorization (PMF)Principal component analysis (PCA)Source apportionment analysis

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