This easy-to-understand introduction emphasizes the areas of probability theory and statistic that are important in environmental monitoring, data analysis, research, environmental field surveys, and environmental decision making. It communicates basic statistical theory with very little abstract mathematical notation, without omitting important details and assumptions. Topics include Bayes'Theorem, geometric distribution, computer simulation, histograms and frequency plots, maximum likelihood estimation, the tail exponential method, Bernoulli processes, Poisson processes, diffusion and...

Written by international experts, Exposure Analysis is first complete textbook in the emerging new scientific discipline of exposure analysis. The book covers human exposure through all important pathways including air, food, water, dermal absorption, and, for children, non-food ingestion. Extensively tested for nearly a decade by students in the exposure analysis course at Stanford University, it is a comprehensive source for coverage of the environmental pollutants that affect human health. Defining this emerging discipline, this text is essential for environmental health researchers and...