Inference about the mean in log-regression with environmental applications

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 569-582

  El Shaarawi, A H ^a   Viveros, Roman ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Confidence intervals; Departures from normality; Minimum variance unbiased estimation; Non parametrics; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; REGRESSION;

EID: 0030766295     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199709/10)8:5<569::AID-ENV274>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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