Evaluation of censored data methods to allow statistical comparisons among very small samples with below detection limit observations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 177-183

  Clarke, Joan U ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DREDGING; ERROR ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DREDGED SEDIMENT TESTING;

SEDIMENTS;

ARTICLE; DREDGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 0031974652     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es970521v     Document Type: Article

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