Computes uscores or the ranks off uscores within columns of interval-censored data (the "i"). Data may have one or more detection limits.

uscoresi(dat.frame, paired = TRUE, rnk = TRUE, Cnames = 1)

## Arguments

dat.frame A data frame. Default format is: paired = TRUE, the default input format is ylo1 yhi1 ylo2 yhi2 ylo3 yhi3, where ylo is the low end of the interval of possible values, and yhi is the high end. There is a pair of columns for each censored parameter. An option to specify paired = FALSE, where the format would be ylo1 ylo2 ylo3 yhi1 yhi2 yhi3, low values for each parameter followed by the high values in the same order. rnk=TRUE returns the ranks of uscores. rnk = FALSE returns the uscores themselves. Default is rnk = TRUE to return the ranks. Cnames =1 uses the "lo" column names to name the uscores columns (the default). Cnames = 2 uses the "hi" column names.

## Value

prints the uscore number of observations known to be lower - number of observations known to be higher, for each observation.

## Details

Input is a data.frame of paired low and high possible range of values, in an interval-censored format. ylo = the lower end of the interval is the first (left) column in the pair. yhi is the upper end of the interval, at the second (right) column in the pair. For a detected value, ylo=yhi. For a ND, ylo != yhi. The uscore is the number of observations known to be lower minus the number of observations known to be higher. Ties, including those such as <1 vs <3 or 4 vs 4 or <3 vs 2, are given a 0 value in the uscore computation. The ranks of uscores provides a scale that is often more manageable than the uscores themselves.

## References

Helsel, D.R., 2011. Statistics for Censored Environmental Data using Minitab and R, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, USA, N.J.