Combining Environmental Information: Environmetric Research in Ecological Monitoring, Epidemiology, Toxicology, and Environmental Data Reporting (1994)

Abstract:

An increasingly important concern in environmental studies is the need to combine information from diverse sources that relate to a common endpoint or effect and to combine environmental monitoring and assessment data. These are statistical problems, and statistical techniques are integral to analyses that combine environmental information. These techniques are still under development, however, as modern statistical methods for combining environmental information usually require subject-specific formulations. Herein, we discuss opportunities for statistical research in the area of combining environmental information, based on information presented during a 1993 Workshop on Statistical Methods for Combining Environmental Information, organized by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

Keywords: 

combining information; data reporting; data aggregation; environmental epidemiology; meta­analysis; environmental monitoring and assessment.