Statistical Framework for Recreational Water Quality Criteria and Monitoring is 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.

Features:

• 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

Contents

1. The Evolution of Water Quality Criteria in the United States - 1922-2003
2. A Management Context For The Statistical Design Of Recreational Contact Water Quality Monitoring Programs
3. Conceptual Bases for Relating Illness Risk to Indicator Concentrations
4. On Selecting the Statistical Rationale for Revised EPA Recreational Water Quality Criteria for Bacteria
5. Sampling Recreational Waters
6. The Lognormal Distribution and Use of the Geometric Mean and the Arithmetic Mean in Recreational Water Quality Measurement
7. The EMPACT Beaches: A Case Study in Recreational Water Sampling
8. Microbial Risk Assessment Modeling
9. A plausible model to explain concentration-response relationships in randomized controlled trials assessing infectious disease risks from exposure to recreational waters
10. Nowcasting recreational water quality
11. Statistical sensitivity analysis and water quality

Index

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