RETRACTED: Cluster Analysis to Assess Groundwater Quality in Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India

Ganeshbabu Oorkavalan¹, Sashikkumar Madurai Chidambaram², Vijayaraj Mariappan³, Gokulakrishnan Kandaswamy⁴, Sakthieswaran Natarajan¹

¹Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, India.
²Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Engineering, Dindigul, India.
³Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GCE, Tirunelveli, India.
⁴Department of E & C Engineering, Anna University Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, India.

DOI: 10.4236/cs.2016.76075                

Abstract

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Keywords

Groundwater, Water Quality, Principal Component Analysis, Classification, Multilayer Perceptron, Dendrogram

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