{"product_id":"statistics-for-censored-environmental-data-using-minitab-and-r-wiley-series-in-statistics-in-practice","title":"Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab and R (Wiley Series in Statistics in Practice)","description":"Praise for the First Edition\n\" . . . 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.\"\n―Vadose Zone Journal\nStatistics 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 environmental studies.\nThis new edition applies methods of survival analysis, including methods for interval-censored data to the interpretation of low-level contaminants in environmental sciences and occupational health. Now incorporating the freely available R software as well as Minitab® into the discussed analyses, the book features newly developed and updated material including: A new chapter on multivariate methods for censored data Use of interval-censored methods for treating true nondetects as lower than and separate from values between the detection and quantitation limits (\"remarked data\") A section on summing data with nondetects A newly written introduction that discusses invasive data, showing why substitution methods fail Expanded coverage of graphical methods for censored data\nThe author writes in a style that focuses on applications rather than derivations, with chapters organized by key objectives such as computing intervals, comparing groups, and correlation. Examples accompany each procedure, utilizing real-world data that can be analyzed using the Minitab® and R software macros available on the book's related website, and extensive references direct readers to authoritative literature from the environmental sciences.\nStatistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R, Second Edition is an excellent book for courses on environmental statistics at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. The book also serves as a valuable reference for??environmental professionals, biologists, and ecologists who focus on the water sciences, air quality, and soil science.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0470479884\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.0470479884.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Helsel, Dennis R.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy does have writing.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55537884102961,"sku":"GBV.0470479884.G","price":87.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/statistics-for-censored-environmental-data-using-minitab-and-r-wiley-series-in-statistics-in-practice","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}