Choose Your Procedure Wisely: Removal of Outliers is Inappropriate for Estimating Background Concentrations of Trace Elements in Soil

Alexander Neaman; Lalita V. Zakharikhina; Claudia Navarro-Villarroel; Patricia Peñaloza; Elvira A. Dovletyarova

doi:10.1002/etc.5550

Choose Your Procedure Wisely: Removal of Outliers is Inappropriate for Estimating Background Concentrations of Trace Elements in Soil

Alexander Neaman, Lalita V. Zakharikhina, Claudia Navarro-Villarroel, Patricia Peñaloza, Elvira A. Dovletyarova

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	555-557
Number of pages	3
Journal	Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Volume	42
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5550
State	Published - Mar 2023

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Heavy metals
Metals
Soil contamination

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