Trimmed Spearman-Karber method for estimating median lethal

Apr 1, 1978 - Trimmed Spearman-Karber method for estimating median lethal concentrations in bioassays. M. A. Hamilton, R. C. Russo, R. V. Thurston. En...
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Acknowledgment

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Received for review July 1, 1977.Accepted October 6,1977.Support provided in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Sea Grant, US.Department of Commerce, through an institutional grant to the University of Wisconsin and by the Office of Water Resources Research Project No.14-31-0014140 (B-088-WZS), administered through the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Center. Assistance also given by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Correction In the article, “Trimmed Spearman-Karber Method for Estimating Median Lethal Concentrations in Toxicity Bioassays”, by M. A. Hamilton, R. C. RUSSO,and R. V. Thurston [Enuiron. Sci. Technol., 11,714-19 (1977)], M. C. Mobley and N. R. Ferri have pointed out some errors in the calculated confidence interval endpoints given in Tables I1 and VI. T h e equation in the Appendix of our paper is correct, but we have found a programming error which resulted in most of the reported confidence intervals being too wide. For example, for data set 1C in Table 11, the a%-trimmed Spearman-Karber confidence interval endpoints for a = 0,5,10, and 20% should be (39.14,44.49), (39.86, 45.381, (39.51,46.34), and (40.77,45.17). A listing of the FORTRAN program which we are using to do the &-trimmed Spearman-Karber calculations is available upon request.

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