Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Monitoring (eBook)

Larry J. Wymer (Herausgeber)

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2007
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-51831-1 (ISBN)

Infos

With increasing rates of pollution to both land and aquatic
environments, regulations for the quality of our waters are
necessarily becoming more stringent. In the light of recent
epidemiological studies new criteria are being established for the
safety of our recreational waters. In order for such criteria to be
developed an established statistical framework needs to be in
place.

Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteria
and Monitoring offers a practical guide to the statistical methods
used for assessing health effects and monitoring and modelling
water quality Both traditional and novel sampling designs are
discussed. Written by a team of international experts in the field,
this book sets out to provide an essential structure for the
monitoring of water quality.

· Proposes a much-needed framework for the monitoring of
water quality, and provides practical guidance on the statistical
methods involved.

· Covers risk characterization, empirical modelling,
sensitivity analysis and measures of robustness.

· Details sampling methods and quality control
approaches.

· Presents crucial, real-life results from recent
large-scale studies of water quality, central to the development of
the area.

· Accompanied by a supplementary website hosting data sets
and tools for data analysis.

The book is primarily aimed at public health officials, staff of
regulatory bodies and students and faculty members of environmental
and statistical science courses. There is also much to benefit
readers from environmental research and risk analysis.

Autor

Larry Wymer, Mathematical Statistician, US Environmental Protection Agency. Mr Wymer has been involved with recreational water criteria for the past six years, and has published numerous papers in many international journals in this field.

Inhalt

Contributors.

Preface.

1: The Evolution of Water Quality Criteria in the United States
- 1922-2003 (Alfred P. Dufour and Stephen Schaub).

2: A Management Context For The Statistical Design Of
Recreational Contact Water Quality Monitoring Programs (Stephen B.
Weisberg).

3: Conceptual Bases for Relating Illness Risk to Indicator
Concentrations (David F. Parkhurst, Guntehr F. Craun, and Jeffrey
A. Soller).

4: On Selecting the Statistical Rationale for Revised EPA
Recreational Water Quality Criteria for Bacteria (Richard O.
Gilbert).

5: Sampling Recreational Waters (Abdel H El-Shaarawi and Sylvia
R Esterby).

6: The Lognormal Distribution and Use of the Geometric Mean and
the Arithmetic Mean in Recreational Water Quality Measurement
(Larry J. Wymer and Timothy J. Wade).

7: The EMPACT Beaches: A Case Study in Recreational Water
Sampling (Larry J. Wymer).

8: Microbial Risk Assessment Modeling (Graham McBride).

9: A plausible model to explain concentration-response
relationships in randomized controlled trials assessing infectious
disease risks from exposure to recreational waters (Albrecht
Wiedenmann).

10: Nowcasting recreational water quality (Alexandria B. Boehm,
Richard L. Whitman, Meredith B. Nevers, Deyi Hou, and Stephen B.
Weisberg).

11: Statistical sensitivity analysis and water quality
(Alessandro Fasso).

Index.

Rezensionen

"The book provides useful information on specific topics."
(Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2009)

"The book is a good source for graduate students and researchers
who want to get a broad overview of statistical problems and
proposed solutions based on current research on recreational water
quality." (Journal of Environmental Quality, August
2008)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Statistics in Practice
• Reihe/Serie: Statistics in Practice
• Reihe/Serie: Statistics in Practice
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: biometrics • Biometrie • Criteria • Epidemiological • established • Guide • increasing • Land • light • necessarily • New • Order • Place • pollution • quality • rates • Recreational • Regulations • Safety • Statistical • Statistics • Statistik • Stringent • Studies • Umweltwissenschaften • Waters
• ISBN-10: 0-470-51831-6 / 0470518316
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-51831-1 / 9780470518311