Evaluation of maximum likelihood procedures to estimate left censored observations

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1124-1132

  Jain, Ram B ^a   Caudill, Samuel P ^a   Wang, Richard Y ^a   Monsell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIMIT OF DETECTION (LOD); STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRATRACE ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVATION; PARAMETER; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALBUMINS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRON; LEAD; MICROCHEMISTRY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM;

EID: 39449135586     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac0711788     Document Type: Article

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