Characterization of arsenic occurrence in source waters of U.S. Community water systems

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 456, 2001, Pages 1184-1193

  Lockwood, J R ^a   Schervish, Mark J ^a   Gurian, Patrick ^a   Small, Mitchell J ^b  

^a Department of Statistics ^*  (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Analysis; Cross Validation; Hierarchical Model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542574460     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753381832     Document Type: Article

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