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Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus explains why modern stochastics is the appropriate mechanical vehicle for addressing such issues in a rigorous way. In particular, modern stochastics incorporates concepts and methods from probability, classical statistics, geostatistics, statistical mechanics and field theory. The authors present a synthetic view of environmental health that embraces all of the various components and focuses on their mutual interactions.
Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modeling: A Tractatus Stochasticus includes new material on Bayesian maximum entropy estimation techniques and space-time random field estimation methods. The authors show why these methods have clear advantages over the classical geostatistical estimation procedures and how they can be used to provide accurate space-time maps of environmental health processes. Also included are expositions of diagrammatic perturbation and renormalization group analysis, which have not been previously discussed within the context of Environmental Health. Finally, the authors present stochastic indicators that can be used for large-scale characterization of contamination and investigations of health effects at the microscopic level.
This book will be a useful reference to both researchers and practitioners of Environmental Health Sciences. It will appeal specifically to environmental engineers, geographers, geostatisticians, earth scientists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, pharmacologists, applied mathematicians, physicists and biologists.
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Book Title: Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus
Authors: George Christakos, Dionissios T. Hristopulos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2811-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8211-9Published: 31 July 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5048-2Published: 03 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2811-8Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 400
Topics: Public Health, Ecotoxicology, Epidemiology, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution