Silver concentrations (mg/L) from an interlab comparison. There are 34 observations out of a total of 56 that are reported as <DL, where DL denotes a detection limit. There are 12 distinct detection limits.
Helsel.Cohn.88.silver.df
A data frame with 56 observations on the following 4 variables.
Ag.orig
a character vector of original silver concentrations (mg/L)
Ag
a numeric vector with nondetects coded to the detection limit
Censored
a logical vector indicating which observations are censored
log.Ag
the natural logarithm of Ag
Janzer, V.J. (1986). Report of the U.S. Geological Survey's Analytical Evaluation Program--Standard Reference Water Samples M6, M94, T95, N16, P8, and SED3. Technical Report, Branch of Quality Assurance, U.S. Geological Survey, Arvada, CO.