The mean and standard deviation of data, some of which are below the detection limit: An introduction to maximum likelihood estimation

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 215-222

  Kuttatharmmakul, S ^a   Smeyers Verbeke, J ^a   Massart, D L ^a   Coomans, D ^b   Noack, S ^c  

^a FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Belgium)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Censored data; Censored sample; Detection limit; Maximum likelihood; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034177366     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-9936(99)00197-1     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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