Comparison of the accuracy of kriging and IDW interpolations in estimating groundwater arsenic concentrations in Texas

Environmental Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-69

  Gong, Gordon ^a   Mattevada, Sravan ^b   O'Bryant, Sid E ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b University of North Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Groundwater; IDW; Kriging; Texas

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; KRIGING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ACCURACY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED; KRIGING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPONSE VARIABLE; STATISTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; IDW; KRIGING; TEXAS;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXAS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84896737644     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Buchanan S., Triantafilis J. Mapping water table depth using geophysical and environmental variables. Ground Water 2009, 47:80-96.
2. Derby N. 2010. Getting Correct Results from PROC REG. SAS Global Forum 2010. http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/270-2010.pdf.
3. Esri a, 2012. An Overview of the Interpolation Toolset. 〈http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/An_overview_of_the_Interpolation_tools/009z00000069000000/.
4. Esri b, 2013. Understanding Cokriging. http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Understanding_Cokriging.
5. Gibb H., Haver C., Gaylor D., Ramasamy S., Lee J.S., Lobdell D., Wade T., Chen C., White P., Sams R. Utility of recent studies to assess the National Research Council 2001 estimates of cancer risk from ingested arsenic. Environ. Health Perspect. 2011, 119:284-290.
6. Gong G., Hargrave K.A., Hobson V., Spallholz J., Boylan M., Lefforge D., O'Bryant S.E. Low-level groundwater arsenic exposure impacts cognition: a Project FRONTIER study. J. Environ. Health 2011, 74:16-22.
7. Gong G., O'Bryant S.E. Low-level arsenic exposure, AS3MT gene polymorphism and cardiovascular diseases in rural Texas counties. Environ. Res. 2012, 113:52-57.
8. Gong G., O'Bryant S.E. The arsenic exposure hypothesis for Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer Dis. Assoc. Disord. 2010, 24:311-316.
9. Hu K.L., Li B.G., Lu Y.Z., Zhang F.R. Comparison of various spatial interpolation methods for non-stationary regional soil mercury content. Huan. Jing Ke Xue 2004, 25:132-137.
10. Lesikar B.J., Melton R.H., Hare M.F., Hopkins J. Dozier MC. Drinking Water Problems: Arsenic 2005.
11. Mabit L., Bernard C. Assessment of spatial distribution of fallout radionuclides through geostatistics concept. J. Environ. Radioact. 2007, 97:206-219.
12. McShane L.M., Meier K.L., Wassermann E.M. A comparison of spatial prediction techniques for an exploratory analysis of human cortical motor representations. Stat. Med. 1997, 16:1337-1355.
13. Medrano M.A., Boix R., Pastor-Barriuso R., Palau M., Damián J., Ramis R., Del Barrio J.L., Navas-Acien A. Arsenic in public water supplies and cardiovascular mortality in Spain. Environ. Res. 2010, 110:448-454.
14. Meliker J.R., Wahl R.L., Cameron L.L., Nriagu J.O. Arsenic in drinking water and cerebrovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and kidney disease in Michigan: a standardized mortality ratio analysis. Environ. Health 2007, 6:4.
15. Milillo T.M., Gardella J.A. Spatial analysis of time of flight-secondary ion mass spectrometric images by ordinary kriging and Inverse distance weighted interpolation techniques. Anal. Chem. 2008, 80:4896-4905.
16. Navas-Acien A., Silbergeld E.K., Pastor-Barriuso R., et al. Arsenic exposure and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in US adults. JAMA 2008, 300:814-822.
17. O'Bryant S., Zhang Y., Owen D., Cherry B., Ramirez V., Silva M., Hudson C., Hobson V., Grammas P., Schiffer R.B., Manning G., Schrimsher G.W., Lucas J.A., Sutker P.B. The Cochran County Aging Study: methodology and descriptive statistics. Texas Public Health J. 2009, 61:5-7. for the Cochran County Aging Study Research Team.
18. O'Bryant S.E., Edwards M., Menon C.V., Gong G., Barber R. Long-term low-level arsenic exposure is associated with poorer neuropsychological functioning: a Project FRONTIER study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8:861-874.
19. Rosner B. Fundamentals of Biostatistics 2000, Duxbury Thomson Learning, United States. 5th ed.
20. Ryker S., 2001 Mapping Arsenic in Groundwater. http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/nov01/feature_Asmap.html.
21. Scanlon, B.R., Nicot, J.-P., Reedy, R.C., Tachovsky, J.A., Nance, S.H., Smyth, R.C., Keese, K., Ashburn, R.E., Christian, L., 2005. Evaluation of Arsenic Contamination in Texas. Final Report (August). http://www.beg.utexas.edu/staffinfo/pdf/Scanlon_As_r2005.pdf.
22. Smith A.H., Lopipero P.A., Bates M.N., et al. Arsenic epidemiology and drinking water standards. Science 2002, 296:2145-2146.
23. Spokas K., Graff C., Morcet M., Aran C. Implications of the spatial variability of landfill emission rates on geospatial analyses. Waste Manag. 2003, 23:599-607.
24. States J.C., Srivastava S., Chen Y., Barchowsky A. Arsenic and cardiovascular disease. Toxicol. Sci. 2009, 107:312-323.
25. USEPA. Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/index.cfm.
26. Wartenberg D., Uchrin C., Coogan P. Estimating exposure using kriging: a simulation study. Environ. Health Perspect. 1991, 94:75-82.
27. WHO, no date. Arsenic in Drinking-Water. Background Document for Development of WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality. Provisional Guideline Value. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/0304_75/en/index9.html.
28. Xie Y., Chen T.B., Lei M., Yang J., Guo Q.J., Song B., Zhou X.Y. Spatial distribution of soil heavy metal pollution estimated by different interpolation methods: accuracy and uncertainty analysis. Chemosphere 2011, 82:468-476.
29. Yunus M., Sohel N., Hore S.K., Rahman M. Arsenic exposure and adverse health effects: a review of recent findings from arsenic and health studies in Matlab, Bangladesh. Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci. 2011, 27:371-376.
30. Zhou Y., Michalak A.M. Characterizing attribute distributions in water sediments by geostatistical downscaling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43:9267-9273.