Robert D. Gibbons, PhD, is Director of the Center for Health Statistics and Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Gibbons has written more than 200 journal articles in the areas of statistics and psychometrics. He is the coauthor of Longitudinal Data Analysis and Statistical Methods for Detection and Quantification of Environmental Contamination, both published by Wiley. DULAL K. BHAUMIK, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Bhaumik has published more than fifty journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include environmental statistics, statistical problems in psychiatry, biostatistics, design of experiments, and statistical inference.SUBHASH ARYAL, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. He has coauthored numerous published articles on statistics in the environmental sciences.

"This book is an excellent supplementary text for courses on environmental statistics or reference for researchers and practitioners." (Book News, December 2009)

• Preface xvAcknowledgments xxiiiAcronyms xxv1 Normal Prediction Intervals 12 Nonparametric Prediction Intervals 353 Prediction Intervals for Other Distributions 674 Gamma Prediction Intervals and Some Related Topics 775 Tolerance Intervals 976 Method Detection Limits 1117 Practical Quantitation Limits 1378 Interlaboratory Calibration 1479 Contaminant Source Analysis 16110 Intra-Well Comparison 19111 Trend Analysis 20512 Censored Data 21713 Normal Prediction Limits for Left-Censored Data 24514 Tests for Departure From Normality 25715 Variance Component Models 28116 Detecting Outliers 28917 Surface Water Analysis 30318 Assessment and Corrective Action Monitoring 31719 Regulatory Issues 33720 Summary 351Topic Index 366

Robert D. Gibbons, PhD, is Director of the Center for Health Statistics and Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Gibbons has written more than 200 journal articles in the areas of statistics and psychometrics. He is the coauthor of Longitudinal Data Analysis and Statistical Methods for Detection and Quantification of Environmental Contamination, both published by Wiley. DULAL K. BHAUMIK, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Bhaumik has published more than fifty journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include environmental statistics, statistical problems in psychiatry, biostatistics, design of experiments, and statistical inference.SUBHASH ARYAL, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. He has coauthored numerous published articles on statistics in the environmental sciences.

"This book is an excellent supplementary text for courses on environmental statistics or reference for researchers and practitioners." (Book News, December 2009)

• Preface xvAcknowledgments xxiiiAcronyms xxv1 Normal Prediction Intervals 12 Nonparametric Prediction Intervals 353 Prediction Intervals for Other Distributions 674 Gamma Prediction Intervals and Some Related Topics 775 Tolerance Intervals 976 Method Detection Limits 1117 Practical Quantitation Limits 1378 Interlaboratory Calibration 1479 Contaminant Source Analysis 16110 Intra-Well Comparison 19111 Trend Analysis 20512 Censored Data 21713 Normal Prediction Limits for Left-Censored Data 24514 Tests for Departure From Normality 25715 Variance Component Models 28116 Detecting Outliers 28917 Surface Water Analysis 30318 Assessment and Corrective Action Monitoring 31719 Regulatory Issues 33720 Summary 351Topic Index 366

Robert D. Gibbons, PhD, is Director of the Center for Health Statistics and Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Gibbons has written more than 200 journal articles in the areas of statistics and psychometrics. He is the coauthor of Longitudinal Data Analysis and Statistical Methods for Detection and Quantification of Environmental Contamination, both published by Wiley. DULAL K. BHAUMIK, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Bhaumik has published more than fifty journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include environmental statistics, statistical problems in psychiatry, biostatistics, design of experiments, and statistical inference.SUBHASH ARYAL, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. He has coauthored numerous published articles on statistics in the environmental sciences.

"This book is an excellent supplementary text for courses on environmental statistics or reference for researchers and practitioners." (Book News, December 2009)

• Preface xvAcknowledgments xxiiiAcronyms xxv1 Normal Prediction Intervals 12 Nonparametric Prediction Intervals 353 Prediction Intervals for Other Distributions 674 Gamma Prediction Intervals and Some Related Topics 775 Tolerance Intervals 976 Method Detection Limits 1117 Practical Quantitation Limits 1378 Interlaboratory Calibration 1479 Contaminant Source Analysis 16110 Intra-Well Comparison 19111 Trend Analysis 20512 Censored Data 21713 Normal Prediction Limits for Left-Censored Data 24514 Tests for Departure From Normality 25715 Variance Component Models 28116 Detecting Outliers 28917 Surface Water Analysis 30318 Assessment and Corrective Action Monitoring 31719 Regulatory Issues 33720 Summary 351Topic Index 366