Particle and microorganism enumeration data: Enabling quantitative rigor and judicious interpretation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1720-1727

  Emelko, Monica B ^a   Schmidt, Philip J ^a   Reilly, Park M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES' THEOREM; COUNTING ERRORS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GIBBS SAMPLING; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SAMPLE PROCESSING; SAMPLING ERRORS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; T-DISTRIBUTION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

RANDOM ERRORS;

DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MICROORGANISM; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM ERROR; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77749295199     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902382a     Document Type: Article

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