Environmental statistics is in a take-off stage both for reasons of societal challenge and statistical opportunity. Environmental statistics is increasingly demanding non-traditional and innovative statistical approaches. This is partly because, unlike in many hard sciences, environmental studies involve space, time, and locally ingenious environmental sampling and monitoring. Also, environmental statistics must satisfy environmental policy research in addition to disciplinary and interdisciplinary environmental research. The chapters written by several outstanding professionals involved in statistics and the environment discuss the current state of the art in different areas of environmental statistics and provide new perspectives and problems for future research, training, policy, and regulation involving statistics and the environment.
Author(s): Ganapati P. Patil, Ganapati P. Patil, C. Radhakrishna Rao
Edition: 1
Publisher: Elsevier Science Pub Co
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 929
Handbook of Statistics 12: Environmental Statistics......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
1. Environmetrics: An Emerging Science......Page 16
2. A National Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics: A Center Without Walls......Page 23
3. Replicate Measurements for Data Quality and Environmental Modeling......Page 84
4. Design and Analysis of Composite Sampling Procedures: A Review......Page 116
5. Ranked Set Sampling......Page 180
6. Environmental Adaptive Sampling......Page 214
7. Statistical Analysis of Censored Environmental Data......Page 234
8. Biological Monitoring: Statistical Issues and Models......Page 256
9. Environmental Sampling and Monitoring......Page 275
10. Ecological Statistics......Page 319
11. Forest Biometrics......Page 389
12. Ecological Diversity and Forest Management......Page 420
13. Ornithological Statistics......Page 474
14. Statistical Methods in Developmental Toxicology......Page 518
15. Environmental Biometry: Assessing Impacts of Environmental Stimuli Via Animal and Microbial Laboratory Studies......Page 545
16. Stochasticity in Deterministic Models......Page 570
17. Compartmental Models of Ecological and Environmental Systems......Page 591
18. Environmental Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems-Based Modeling......Page 622
19. Regression Analysis of Spatially Correlated Data: The Kanawha County Health Study......Page 650
20. Methods for Estimating Heterogeneous Spatial Covariance Functions with Environmental Applications......Page 668
21. Meta-Analysis in Environmental Statistics......Page 697
22. Statistical Methods in Atmospheric Science......Page 723
23. Statistics with Agricultural Pests and Environmental Impacts......Page 741
24. A Crystal Cube for Coastal and Estuarine Degradation: Selection of Endpoints and Development of Indices for Use in Decision Making......Page 777
25. How does Scientific Information in General and Statistical Information in Particular Input to the Environmental Regulatory Process?......Page 797
26. Environmental Regulatory Statistics......Page 823
27. An Overview of Statistical Issues Related to Environmental Cleanup......Page 872
28. Environmental Risk Estimation and Policy Decisions......Page 886
Biographical Information......Page 901
Subject Index......Page 906
Handbook of Statistics: Contents of Previous Volumes......Page 917
