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Soil Properties And Landtypes--Classification And Identification With Discriminant Analysis, R. David Hammer, John W. Philpot

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

Intensive land use is requiring more detailed information about patterns and magnitudes of soil variability than can be acquired through traditional soil survey techniques. Discriminant analysis is a mathematical method of numerical classification which could be used to identify discrete populations of soils in their natural settings. The hypothesis of this study was that discriminant analysis could be used to group soils on landtypes on the Mid-Cumberland Plateau. A large data set (132 observations of 29 soil variables) was collected from three landtypes at two Cumberland Plateau locations. Discriminant analysis was used to classify the soil observations into landtypes. Canonical …