editado por G.P. Patil, C.R. Rao. -- Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, 1994.

xix, 927 p.; 25 cm. -- (Handbook of statistics ; v.12)

ISBN 0-444-89803-4.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Preface -- Contributors -- Environmental statistics as an emerging subject area -- Environmetrics: an emerging science -- A national center for statistical ecology and environmental statistics: a center without walls -- Environmental sampling and design -- Replicate measurements for data quality and environmental modeling -- Design and analysis of composite sampling procedures: a review -- Ranked set sampling -- Environmental adaptive sampling -- Statistical analysis of censored environmental data -- Environmental monitoring -- Biological monitoring: statistical issues and models -- Environmental sampling and monitoring -- Statistical ecology -- Ecological statistics -- Forest biometrics -- Ecological diversity and forest management -- Ornithological statistics -- Environmental biometrics -- Statistical methods in developmental toxicology -- Environmental biometry: assessing impacts of environmental stimuli via animal and microbial laboratory studies -- Systems modeling and analysis -- Stochasticity in deterministic models -- Compartmental models of ecological and environmental systems -- Environmental remote sensing and geographic information systems-based modeling -- Spatial statistics -- Regression analysis of spatially correlated data: The Kanawha cCnty Health Study -- Methods for estimating heterogeneous spatial covariance functions with environmental applications -- Statistical issues and methods -- Meta-analysis in environmental statistics -- Statistical methods in atmospheric science -- Statistics with agricultural pets and environmental impacts -- Statistics in environmental regulation -- A crystal cube for coastal and estuarine degradation: selection of endpoints and development of indices for use in decision making -- How does scientific information in general and statistical information in particular input to the environmental regulatory process? -- Environmental regulatory statistics -- An overview of statistical issues related to environmental cleanup -- Environmental risk estimation and policy decisions.