Environmental
Monitoring and Sampling Design [Focus
Course, 4 days]
I. Statistical Thinking
in Environmental Decision-Making
A. Framework for Statistical
Thinking
B. Environmental Pollution
Data
C. Environmental Populations:
Sampling in Space and Time
D. Regulatory Law
II. STATGRAPHICS Fundamentals
III. Sampling Designs
A. Fundamentals
B. Simple Random Sampling
C. Stratified Random Sampling
D. Two-Stage Sampling
E. Composite and Three-Stage
Sampling
F. Systematic Sampling
G. Double Sampling
IV. Locating Hot Spots
A. Sampling Design
B. Size of Hot Spot, Probabilities
and Risks
V. Environmental Data
A. Skewed Distribution Inferences
B. Nonparametric Inferences
C. Censored Data: Detection
Limits
D. Outliers
VI. Environmental Monitoring
A. Data Screening
B. Control Charts
C. Trends and Seasonality
VII. Comparing Populations
A. Paired Data Sets
B. Independent Data Sets