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The information carried by EAS of the energy range 10(14) - 10(17) eV
is limited by significant fluctuations of the shower development, insu
fficient experimental sampling and uncertainties of the detector respo
nse. Additional uncertainties arise from different simulation procedur
es and statistical methods used for inferring the results. We propose
to combine an advanced EAS simulation program like CORSIKA with the AN
I multivariate statistical analysis package for an event-by-event anal
ysis and for a standardization of the inference from EAS data. We illu
strate the technique for simulated results of two different detector l
ocations: ANI at a mountain altitude and KASCADE at sea level.