Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring

Sampling Environmental Populations. Environmental Sampling Design. Simple Random Sampling. Stratified Random Sampling. Two-Stage Sampling. Compositing and Three-Stage Sampling. Systematic Sampling. Double Sampling. Locating Hot Spots. Quantiles, Proportions, and Means. Skewed Distributions and Goodness-of-Fit Tests. Characterizing Lognormal Populations. Estimating the Mean and Variance from Censored Data Sets. Outlier Detection and Control Charts. Detecting and Estimating Trends. Trends and Seasonality. Comparing Populations. Appendices. Symbols. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.