caa a22 4500 469029404 CHVBK 20180323132739.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00399687 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00399687 Blackwood Larry Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, EG&G Idaho, Inc., P.O. Box 1625, 83415, Idaho Falls, ID, USA aut The lognormal distribution, environmental data, and radiological monitoring [Elektronische Daten] [Larry Blackwood] The lognormal distribution has become a common choice to represent intrinsically positive and often highly skewed environmental data in statistical analysis. However the implications of its use are often not carefully considered. With an emphasis on radiological monitoring applications, this paper reviews what assuming lognormality means in terms of data analysis and interpretation. The relationship of using normal theory methods on log transformed data to multiplicative errors and hypothesis testing in the original scale is also discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/3(1992-06-01), 193-210 0167-6369 21:3<193 1992 21 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399687 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399687 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Blackwood Larry Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, EG&G Idaho, Inc., P.O. Box 1625, 83415, Idaho Falls, ID, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/3(1992-06-01), 193-210 0167-6369 21:3<193 1992 21 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer