Imputation of data values that are less than a detection limit

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 436-441

  Succop, Paul A ^a,c   Clark, Scott ^a   Chen, Mei ^a   Galke, Warren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b National Center for Healthy Housing   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored distributions; Imputation; Maximum likelihood; Method detection limit; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; LEAD; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAINT; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 3142554130     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620490462797     Document Type: Article

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