tox.sqo: Get Tox SQO Scores and Categories

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

Get Tox SQO Scores and Categories

Description

This function will calculate the tox SQO scores for stations given a dataframe structured as described in the details or the Arguments section. The funtion will get SQO scores for each individual test conducted for a station, as well as the integrated Toxicity LOE SQO score and category

Usage

tox.sqo(toxresults)

Arguments

toxresults

a dataframe with the following columns: stationid, toxbatch, species, sampletypecode matrix, labrep, result. This data must also include the control samples (stationcode 0000, sampletypecode CNEG etc) The input dataframe is structured as follows: stationid - an alpha-numeric identifier of the location; lab - (optional) The laboratory which performed the test toxbatch - the toxbatch id - used to join with the control sample species - The Genus and species of the animale that was tested sampletypecode - The sampletype used Grab, CNEG etc. Control samples must be included matrix - (optional) Whole Sediment, Sediment Water Interface, etc. Be sure to not include Reference Toxicants labrep - There should be 5 per station, species pair result - the percentage that survived the test, or had normal development

Examples

data(tox_sampledata)
tox.sqo(tox_sampledata)

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