Difficulties with the lognormal model in mean estimation and testing

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-97

  Schmoyer, R L ^a,c   Beauchamp, J J ^a,d   Brandt, C C ^a,e,f,g,h,i   Hoffman Jr , F O ^b,j,k,l,m,n  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Senes Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis Inc   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^f AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^g Biometric Society

^h American Institute of Biological Sciences

ⁱ Ecological Society of America

^j SENES Oak Ridge Incorporated   (United States)

^k National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

^l Science Advisory Board

^m Health Advisory Panel

ⁿ Advsy Panel to the Center for Disease Control for Dose Reconstruction and Analytical Epidemiology

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Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Left censoring; Product limit estimate; Risk assessment; Truncated normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642590729     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00577325     Document Type: Article

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