Evaluation of Statistical Treatments of Left-Censored Environmental Data Using Coincident Uncensored Data Sets. II. Group Comparisons

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 13439-13446

  Antweiler, Ronald C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CENSORED DATA; DETECTION LIMITS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ITS APPLICATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; SUBSTITUTION METHOD;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; INSTRUMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALUATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; ECOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOLOGY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PROBABILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947265996     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02385     Document Type: Article

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