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CE_25C Tue, 8/8/06, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM CC-309
Analysis of Environmental Data with Nondetects - Continuing Education - Course
The ASA, Section on Statistics and the Environment
Instructor(s): Dennis R. Helsel, U.S. Geological Survey, Lopaka Lee, U.S. Geological Survey
This one-day course will survey the use of survival/reliability analysis and nonparametric techniques for the analysis of censored environmental data. Nonparametric and maximum likelihood methods for calculating descriptive statistics, testing hypothesis, and computing regression equations will be illustrated using the freely-available R statistical environment. Methods include two versions of estimating a Kendall-Theil-Sen line for censored data, applicable (unlike MLE) to doubly-censored data. The course covers material from the NADA contributed package for R. RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK: Helsel, D.R. (2005): Nondetects and Data Analysis: Statistics for Censored Environmental Data. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN: 0-471-67173-8.

Course attendees are expected to be familiar with the topic at the level of:
Introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard, Springer OR
The R main page.

 

JSM 2006 For information, contact jsm@amstat.org or phone (888) 231-3473. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.
Revised April, 2006