Complications with using ratios for environmental data: Comparing enantiomeric ratios (ERs) and enantiomer fractions (EFs)

Chemosphere

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 531-538

  Ulrich, Elin M ^a,b   Helsel, Dennis R ^a   Foreman, William T ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Enantiomer fraction; Parametric statistics; Partition coefficients; Ratio functions; Skewed distributions

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

STANDARD DEVIATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DATA PROCESSING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOMER FRACTION; ENANTIOMER RATIO; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0742304393     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00538-1     Document Type: Article

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