CSI: Chemical Score Index

In SCCWRP/SQOUnified: Tools for calculating SQO scores based on three Lines of Evidence (Benthic, Tox, Chem)

Chemical Score Index

Description

This function calculates the Chemical Score Index for the given sites. The ultimate guide for this function is the CASQO Technical Manual Chapter 3 (beginning of page 34 to the beginning of page 36)

Usage

CSI(chemdata)

Arguments

chemdata

a dataframe with the following headings: StationID AnalyteName Result RL MDL units (optional) - Metals should be in mg/dry kg (mg/kg dw) and all organic constituents should be in ug/dry kg (ug/kg dw). fieldrep (optional) - data will be filtered to where fieldrep = 1 labrep (optional) - data will be filtered to where labrep = 1 sampletypecode (optional) - data will be filtered to where sampletypecode = Result (to avoid including data from QA/QC samples)

Examples

data(chem_sampledata) # load sample data to your environment
CSI(chem_sampledata) # get scores and see output

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