Multielement geochemical data missing value and below detection limit imputation
2019
Introduction
The precise measurement of small concentrations of elements from chemical analyses is limited due to
instrument sensitivity. Such concentrations are known as the detection limit (DL). Given the increasing popularity
of multivariate data analysis tools to identify patterns within geochemical data, which often require all data to be
represented by real values, methods for imputing missing or below DL (BDL) values are required. BDL values
are often either removed completely or replaced with a constant value such as half the BDL (Carranza, 2011;
Hron and others, 2010). Where additional information is available, such as with multivariate data, BDL values
can be imputed using methods that assess the conditional similarities between samples within data space.
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