Statistical Methods for the Environmental Sciences: A Selection of Papers Presented at the Conference on Environmetrics, held in Cairo, Egypt, April 4–7, 1989

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Statistical Methods to Apportion the Sources of Particles in the Industrial Region of Estarreja — Portugal....Pages 1-9
The Distribution of Monthly Rainfall Intensity at Some Sites in Saudi Arabia....Pages 11-22
The Economics of Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe....Pages 23-44
True and False Positive Rates in Maximum Contaminant Level Tests....Pages 45-58
Statistical Analysis of Effects of Measures Against Agricultural Pollution....Pages 59-68
Air Pollution and Diseases of the Respiratory Tracts in Pre-School Children: A Transfer Function Model....Pages 69-78
The Niagara River: A Water Quality Management Overview....Pages 79-88
Time Series Valued Experimental Designs: A Review....Pages 89-102
Extent of Acidification in Southwestern Québec Lakes....Pages 103-121
A Statistical Approach to Field Measurements of the Chemical Evolution of Cold (< 0 °C) Snow Cover....Pages 123-138
Statistical Control of Hygienic Quality of Bathing Water....Pages 139-148
Relationships between Water Mass Characteristics and Estimates of Fish Population Abundance from Trawl Surveys....Pages 149-167
Sampling Inference, an Alternate Statistical Model....Pages 169-174
Statistical Needs in National Water Quality Monitoring Programs....Pages 175-193
An Application of Multivariate Analysis to Acid Rain Data in Northern Italy to Discriminate Natural and Man-Made Compounds....Pages 195-202
Characterization of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Areas by Multivariate Statistical Analysis: Case Studies....Pages 203-224
Framework for Enhancing the Statistical Design of Aquatic Environmental Studies....Pages 225-236
Analysis of Two-Way Layout of Count Data with Negative Binomial Variation....Pages 237-244
An Overview of the Acidification of Lakes in Atlantic Canada....Pages 245-260
Statistical Inference from Multiply Censored Environmental Data....Pages 261-269