Statistics for censored environmental data using Minitab and R /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Helsel, Dennis R.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2012]
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed.
• Σειρά: Statistics in practice.
• Θέματα: Minitab.; Environmental sciences > Statistical methods.; Pollution > Measurement > Statistical methods.; R (Computer program language); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.; Electronic books.

 Praise for the First Edition " ... an excellent addition to an upper-level undergraduate course on environmental statistics, and ... a 'must-have' desk reference for environmental practitioners dealing with censored datasets."--Vadose Zone Journal Statistical Methods for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R, Second Edition introduces and explains methods for analyzing and interpreting censored data in the environmental sciences. Adapting survival analysis techniques from other fields, the book translates well-established methods from other disciplines into new solutions for en. 

 Frontmatter -- Things People do with Censored Data that are Just Wrong -- Three Approaches for Censored Data -- Reporting Limits -- Reporting, Storing, and Using Censored Data -- Plotting Censored Data -- Computing Summary Statistics and Totals -- Computing Interval Estimates -- What can be done when all Data are below the Reporting Limit? -- Comparing Two Groups -- Comparing Three or more Groups -- Correlation -- Regression and Trends -- Multivariate Methods for Censored Data -- The NADA for R Software -- Appendix: Datasets -- References -- Index -- Statistics in Practice.