Handling nonnormality and variance heterogeneity for quantitative sublethal toxicity tests

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2009-2017

  Ritz, Christian ^a   Van Der Vliet, Leana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Counts; Distribution; Nonlinear; Poisson; Regression; Transformation; Weighting

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BOX COX TRANSFORMATION; BROAD SPECTRUM; DATA SETS; EISENIA ANDREI; ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICITY; LEMNA MINOR; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MODEL FIT; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON-NORMALITY; POISSON REGRESSION; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; SAMPLE DATA; STANDARD TESTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TOOLS; SUBLETHAL TOXICITY;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TOXICITY;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TEST; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ALGA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTING; VARIANCE;

ANIMALS; ARACEAE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUKARYOTA; OLIGOCHAETA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TESTS;

ALGAE; EISENIA ANDREI; LEMNA MINOR;

EID: 77950334172     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-480.1     Document Type: Article

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