Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management

[ska51]

Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management: Issues, Problems, and Solutions

Author: Graham B. McBride | Size: 15.3 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Unspecified | Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition | Year: 2005 | pages: 344 | ISBN: 0471470163

Description:

STATISTICS IN PRACTICE A practical exploration of alternative approaches to analyzing water-related environmental issuesWritten by an experienced environmentalist and recognized expert in the field, this text is designed to help water resource managers and scientists to formulate, implement, and interpret more effective methods of water quality management.After presenting the basic foundation for using statistical methods in water resource management, including the use of appropriate hypothesis test procedures and some rapid calculation procedures, the author offers a range of practical problems and solutions on environmental topics that often arise, but are not generally covered.

These include:
* Formulating water quality standards
* Determining compliance with standards
* MPNs and microbiology
* Water-related, human health risk modeling
* Trends, impacts, concordance, and detection limits
In order to promote awareness of alternative approaches to analyzing data, both frequentist and Bayesian, statistical methods are contrasted in terms of their applicability to various environmental issues.
Each chapter ends with a number of set problems for which full answers are provided. The book also encourages discussion between technical staff and management before embarking on statistical studies.

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
Part II Problems and Solutions
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 exercises
References
Author Index
Topic Index
Appendix A Statistical Tables

Code:

***************************************
Content of this section is hidden, You must be registered and activate your account to see this content. See this link to read how you can remove this limitation:

http://forum.civilea.com/thread-27464.html
***************************************

Code:

***************************************
Content of this section is hidden, You must be registered and activate your account to see this content. See this link to read how you can remove this limitation:

http://forum.civilea.com/thread-27464.html
***************************************

password (given below) is for mirror links only.

Code:

***************************************
Content of this section is hidden, You must be registered and activate your account to see this content. See this link to read how you can remove this limitation:

http://forum.civilea.com/thread-27464.html
***************************************

This post has been made by CivilEA Post-Generator ver 2.1.6

[arshiakh]

All links are dead.

***************************************
Content of this section is hidden, You must be registered and activate your account to see this content. See this link to read how you can remove this limitation:

http://forum.civilea.com/thread-27464.html
***************************************