Wymer Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Monitoring

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-470-51831-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Statistics in Practice

With increasing rates of pollution to both land and aquaticenvironments, regulations for the quality of our waters arenecessarily becoming more stringent. In the light of recentepidemiological studies new criteria are being established for thesafety of our recreational waters. In order for such criteria to bedeveloped an established statistical framework needs to be inplace.
Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteriaand Monitoring offers a practical guide to the statistical methodsused for assessing health effects and monitoring and modellingwater quality Both traditional and novel sampling designs arediscussed. Written by a team of international experts in the field,this book sets out to provide an essential structure for themonitoring of water quality.
· Proposes a much-needed framework for the monitoring ofwater quality, and provides practical guidance on the statisticalmethods involved.
· Covers risk characterization, empirical modelling,sensitivity analysis and measures of robustness.
· Details sampling methods and quality controlapproaches.
· Presents crucial, real-life results from recentlarge-scale studies of water quality, central to the development ofthe area.
· Accompanied by a supplementary website hosting data setsand tools for data analysis.
The book is primarily aimed at public health officials, staff ofregulatory bodies and students and faculty members of environmentaland statistical science courses. There is also much to benefitreaders from environmental research and risk analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wymer, Larry J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 OfRecreational Contact Water Quality Monitoring Programs (Stephen B.Weisberg).
3: Conceptual Bases for Relating Illness Risk to IndicatorConcentrations (David F. Parkhurst, Guntehr F. Craun, and JeffreyA. Soller).
4: On Selecting the Statistical Rationale for Revised EPARecreational Water Quality Criteria for Bacteria (Richard O.Gilbert).
5: Sampling Recreational Waters (Abdel H El-Shaarawi and SylviaR Esterby).
6: The Lognormal Distribution and Use of the Geometric Mean andthe Arithmetic Mean in Recreational Water Quality Measurement(Larry J. Wymer and Timothy J. Wade).
7: The EMPACT Beaches: A Case Study in Recreational WaterSampling (Larry J. Wymer).
8: Microbial Risk Assessment Modeling (Graham McBride).
9: A plausible model to explain concentration-responserelationships in randomized controlled trials assessing infectiousdisease risks from exposure to recreational waters (AlbrechtWiedenmann).
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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.