Statistical Methods and Pitfalls in Environmental Data Analysis

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 213-220

  Rong, Yue ^a  

^a Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Confidence interval; Correlation coefficient; Groundwater monitoring; Log normal distribution; Normal distribution; Percentile; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008277401     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2000.0022     Document Type: Article

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