Important issues related to using pooled samples for environmental chemical biomonitoring

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 515-521

  Caudill, Samuel P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lognormal; Perfluoroalkyl compounds; Pooled samples

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; COTININE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; POLYFLUOROALKYL COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRAL TENDENCY BIAS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUTRITION SURVEYS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79851493438     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3885     Document Type: Article

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