Journal article

COMMENT ON ET&C PERSPECTIVES, NOVEMBER 2015-A HOLISTIC VIEW

David R Fox, Wayne G Landisx

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY | WILEY | Published : 2016

Abstract

In response to a recent collection of perspectives published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, the authors argue that there is little value in revisiting and rehashing the well-documented issues around toxicity metrics, competing statistical paradigms, legitimacy of theoretical constructs for species sensitivity distributions, and a number of other unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable) attendant statistical issues that have occupied journal space for more than 30 yr. This is not to say that these matters are unimportant-they are; however, the discussion on these topics is mature, with very few new insights being offered. To move forward on some of these seemingly intractable issues,..

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