Insider censoring: Distortion of data with nondetects

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1127-1137

  Helsel, Dennis R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Detection limit; Less than; Nondetect; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644440092     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030500278586     Document Type: Article

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