Estimating sampling variance and local environmental heterogeneity for both known and estimated analytical variance

Chemosphere

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1133-1151

  Clark, Malcolm J R ^a   Laidlaw, Mark C A ^b   Ryneveld, Susan C ^b   Ward, Miranda I ^b  

^a Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical uncertainty; Data quality requirements; Environmental heterogeneity; Pseudo replication; Sampling uncertainty; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; VARIANCE; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SAMPLING VARIANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0029667020     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-6535(96)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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