Methods of assessing and achieving normality applied to environmental data

Environmental Management

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 767-777

  Mateu, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformations; Confidence intervals; Kurtosis; Nonparametric tests; Normal distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

BOX-COX TRANSFORMATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; KURTOSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TESTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SKEWNESS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL VARIABLE; NORMALITY; REGRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0031238555     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900066     Document Type: Article

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