Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Monitoring

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-09-21
Mått160 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStatistics in Practice
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470033722

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Contributors viiPreface ix1 The evolution of water quality criteria in the United States, 1922–2003 1Alfred Dufour and Stephen Schaub2 A management context for the statistical design of recreational contact water quality monitoring programs 13Stephen B. Weisberg3 Conceptual bases for relating illness risk to indicator concentrations 19D.F. Parkhurst, G.F. Craun, and J.A. Soller4 On selecting the statistical rationale for revised EPA recreational water quality criteria for bacteria 45Richard O. Gilbert5 Sampling recreational waters 69A.H. El-Shaarawi and S.R. Esterby6 The lognormal distribution and use of the geometric mean and the arithmetic mean in recreational water quality measurement 91Larry J. Wymer and Timothy J. Wade Copyrighted Material7 The EMPACT beaches: a case study in recreational water sampling 113Larry J. Wymer8 Microbial risk assessment modeling 135Graham McBride9 A plausible model to explain concentration – response relationships in randomized controlled trials assessing infectious disease risks from exposure to recreational waters 153Albrecht Wiedenmann10 Nowcasting recreational water quality 179Alexandria B. Boehm, Richard L. Whitman, Meredith B. Nevers, Deyi Hou, and Stephen B. Weisberg11 Statistical sensitivity analysis and water quality 211Alessandro FassòIndex 231