A conservative, nonparametric estimator for the 5th percentile of the species sensitivity distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 243-258

  Chen, Ling ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Logistic model; Lognormal distribution; Risk assessment; Species sensitivity distributions; The pth percentile

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142649170     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(03)00148-4     Document Type: Article

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