Use of blood levels to infer carcass levels of contaminants.
Inferences may be made about the carcass levels of a contaminant based on the contaminant level in blood samples. A method is given for comparing such populations that utilizes bivariate normal distributions and their principal axes, thereby avoiding a dilemma arising from the use of regression techniques. Confidence intervals and power calculations are given. Data from captive barn owls provide partial justification for the use of this method.
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood; D008954:Models, Biological; D009132:Muscles / Q000032:analysis*; D013223:Statistics as Topic
D004785:Environmental Pollutants