1. Edition - September 2007
89.90 Euro
2007. 248 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-03372-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-03372-2 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Based on the EPA Office of Water's most recent epidemiological studies being conducted at the Great Lakes beaches, Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Monitoring provides a framework in the context of these studies, providing details on traditional and novel sampling designs. Edited by one of the key workers at the EPA, the book focuses on practical statistical methods for monitoring water quality and also covers risk characterization, empirical modeling and sensitivity analysis and measures of robustness.

From the contents
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 Fassò