1. Edition - May 2005
119.- Euro
2005. 344 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-471-47016-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-47016-8 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management: Issues, Problems, and Solutions covers practical and fundamental aspects of environmental statistics that are not covered in existing books on the topic. It also brings together topics that are treated individually in more general books that do not address environmental concerns.

From the contents
List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Preface.

PART I: ISSUES.

1. Introduction.

2. Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics.

3. Intervals.

4. Hypothesis Testing.

5. Detection.

6. Mathematics and Calculation Methods.

7. Formulating Water Quality Standards.

8. Percentile Standards (and the Reverend Bayes).

9. Microbial Water Quality and Human Health.

10. MPNs and Microbiology.

11. Trends, Impacts, Concordance, Detection Limits.

12. Answers to Exerciser.

References.

Author Index.

Topic Index.

Appendix: Statistical Tables.