Evaluating multimedia chemical persistence: Classification and regression tree analysis

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 810-819

  Bennett, Deborah H ^a   McKone, Thomas E ^a,b   Kastenberg, William E ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic time; Classification tree; Decay rates; Multimedia; Persistence

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HALF LIFE TIME; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; TREE;

EID: 0034103016     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190405     Document Type: Article

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