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Mle And Bayesian Methods To Analyze Data With Missing Values Below The Limit Of Detection, Xinxin Hu

Theses and Dissertations

As pesticides are widely used in agriculture, more and more people who work at places like farm are exposed to the pesticides. According to enviroment re- searches [Villarejo; 2003; Reigart and Roberts; 1999], being exposed to some kind of pesticides like Organophosphorus (OP) insecticides has significantly effected the health of farmworkers and their family. The actual level of pesticides can be detected with some limitation for now. However, it is hard to detect when the level is below the limit of detection (LOD). Therefore, the goal of our research is to propose several different methods to analyze data …