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Numerical methods for the examination of multivariate soil samples are presented in geometric terms. Techniques of coordinate representation by principal components, by nonmetric scaling, and by a new method are discussed, as are techniques for agglomerative hierarchic cluster analysis. These are illustrated by two sets of previously published data.
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Anderson, A.J.B. Numeric examination of multivariate soil samples. Mathematical Geology 3, 1–14 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02047429
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02047429