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The use of multivariate analysis of the radon variability in the underground laboratory and indoor environment Cover

The use of multivariate analysis of the radon variability in the underground laboratory and indoor environment

Open Access
|Sep 2016

Abstract

The paper presents results of multivariate analysis of variations of radon concentrations in the shallow underground laboratory and a family house, depending on meteorological variables only. All available multivariate classification and regression methods, developed for data analysis in high-energy physics and implemented in the toolkit for multivariate analysis (TMVA) software package in ROOT, are used in the analysis. The result of multivariate regression analysis is a mapped functional behaviour of variations of radon concentration depending on meteorological variables only, which can be used for the evaluation of radon concentration, as well as to help with modelling of variation of radon concentration. The results of analysis of the radon concentration variations in the underground laboratory and real indoor environment, using multivariate methods, demonstrated the potential usefulness of these methods. Multivariate analysis showed that there is a potentially considerable prediction power of variations of indoor radon concentrations based on the knowledge of meteorological variables only. In addition, the online system using the resulting mapped functional behaviour for underground laboratory in the Institute of Physics Belgrade is implemented, and the resulting evaluation of radon concentrations are presented in this paper.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2016-0059 | Journal eISSN: 1508-5791 | Journal ISSN: 0029-5922
Language: English
Page range: 357 - 360
Submitted on: Jan 4, 2016
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Accepted on: Mar 24, 2016
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Published on: Sep 10, 2016
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2016 Jelena Filipović, Dimitrije Maletić, Vladimir Udovičić, Radomir Banjanac, Dejan Joković, Mihailo Savić, Nikola Veselinović, published by Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
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