A model to estimate the population contributing to the wastewater using samples collected on census day

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 517-525

  O'Brien, Jake W ^a   Thai, Phong K ^a   Eaglesham, Geoff ^a   Ort, Christoph ^a,b   Scheidegger, Andreas ^b   Carter, Steve ^c   Lai, Foon Yin ^a   Mueller, Jochen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INFERENCE ENGINES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SURVEYS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PERCAPITA CONSUMPTION; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; SEWAGE EPIDEMIOLOGIES; WASTEWATER ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER SAMPLES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACESULFAME; ACETONITRILE; ATENOLOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CODEINE; FORMIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; GABAPENTIN; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; ILLICIT DRUG; IOPROMIDE; NAPROXEN; NORFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; SALICYLIC ACID; SEWAGE; STREET DRUG; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

CENSUS; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; POPULATION SIZE; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WASTE WATER; WATER SAMPLING; ANALYSIS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CENSUSES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEWAGE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84891777457     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403251g     Document Type: Article

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