Estimating equivalence with quantile regression

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 281-289

  Cade, Brian S ^a  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Arsenic remediation; Bioequivalence tests; Confidence intervals; Equivalence tests; Mine land reclamation; Negligible trends; Quantile regression; Quantile treatment effects; Rank score tests

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ARSENIC; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOMOGENEITY; LAND RECLAMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; PHARMACOKINETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 79955535287     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2060.1     Document Type: Article

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