Perfluoroalkyl substances in soft tissues and tail feathers of Belgian barn owls (Tyto alba) using statistical methods for left-censored data to handle non-detects

Environment International

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 9-16

  Jaspers, Veerle L B ^a   Herzke, Dorte ^b   Eulaers, Igor ^a   Gillespie, Brenda W ^c   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

External contamination; Feathers; Non detects; PFASs; Reverse Kaplan Meier; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXTERNAL CONTAMINATION; FEATHERS; KAPLAN-MEIER; NON-DETECTS; PFASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BIRDS;

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCE; PERFLUOROHEXANE SULFONATE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOTA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TAIL FEATHER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEATHER; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TYTO ALBA;

ANTWERP [BELGIUM]; BELGIUM;

EID: 84871521000     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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