Statistics for censored environmental data using Minitab and R / Dennis R. Helsel.

Revised edition of: Nondetects and data analysis / Dennis R. Helsel. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.

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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.

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.