Treatment of responses below the detection limit: Some current techniques compared by Factor Analysis on environmental data

Analytica Chimica Acta

Volumn 354, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 255-262

  Aruga, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detection limit; Factor analysis and detection limit; Principal component analysis and detection limit; Reporting limit, responses below; Responses below

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031470258     PISSN: 00032670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2670(97)00463-7     Document Type: Article

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