Bootstrap methods for confidence intervals of percentiles from dataset containing nondetected observations using lognormal distribution

Journal of Chemometrics

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 68-75

  Imaizumi, Yoshitaka ^a   Suzuki, Noriyuki ^a   Shiraishi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bootstrap method; Confidence limit; Monte Carlo simulation; Percentile; Truncated lognormal distribution

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; BOOTSTRAP METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LOG-NORMAL; MONTE CARLO'S SIMULATION; PERCENTILE; RESAMPLING; TRUNCATED LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33847298663     PISSN: 08869383     EISSN: 1099128X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cem.987     Document Type: Article

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