Article: Arsenic Contamination in West Bengal and Bangladesh: Statistical Errors.

In their paper "Groundwater Contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India," Chowdhury et al. (1) address arsenic contamination in groundwater from two countries in Asia. Although arsenic contamination is a serious concern for the entire world, Chowdhury et al. bring out the proportion of people at risk in these areas by measuring arsenic levels using various biochemical parameters, but there are errors and missing information in their statistical presentation. As much as possible, I would like to clarify the statistical presentation of their data.

Chowdhury et al. (1) did not classify all the cases for the Bangladesh data in Figure 2 of their paper. The ...

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