The use of the likelihood function in the analysis of environmental data

Environmetrics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-97

  Díaz Francés, Eloísa ^a   Sprott, David A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Censoring; Detection limit; Likelihood confidence intervals; Linear pivotal; Profile likelihood; Skewness; Small samples; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0343775842     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(200001/02)11:1<75::AID-ENV382>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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