Evaluation of Statistical Treatment of Left-Censored Contamination Data: Example Involving Deoxynivalenol Occurrence in Pasta and Pasta Substitute Products
The handling of data on food contamination frequently represents a challenge because Hand Wash these are often left-censored, being composed of both positive and non-detected values.The latter observations are not quantified and provide only the information that they are below a laboratory-specific threshold value.Besides deterministic approaches,