Report of the Symposium on Environmental Statistics, Assessment, and Forecasting held by the Environmental Division of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 26, 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview: Uncertainties in Assessing the State of the Environment: An Overview of Environmental Statistics, Assessment, and Forecasting / C. Richard Cothern and N. Phillip Ross -- Ch. 1. Uncertainty Issues of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project / Richard O. Gilbert and Jeanne C. Simpson -- Ch. 2. Decreased Sampling Costs and Improved Accuracy with Composite Sampling / Steven D. Edland and Gerald van Belle -- Ch. 3. Environmental Chemistry, Statistical Modeling, and Observational Economy / G.P. Patil, S.D. Gore and A.K. Sinha -- Ch. 4. Predictive Models of Fish Response to Acidification: Using Bayesian Inference to Combine Laboratory and Field Measurements / William J. Warren-Hicks and Robert L. Wolpert -- Ch. 5. A New Approach for Accommodation of Below Detection Limit Data in Trend Analysis of Water Quality / Neerchal K. Nagaraj and Susan L. Brunenmeister -- Ch. 6. Spatial Chemostatistics / Noel Cressie. Ch. 7. Design of the Clean Air Act Deposition Monitoring Network / David M. Holland, Ralph Baumgardner, Tim Haas and Gary Oehlert -- Ch. 8. National Air Quality and Emissions Trends / Barbara A. Beard and Warren P. Freas -- Ch. 9. Statistical Issues for Development Toxicity Data / David W. Gaylor -- Ch. 10. Measuring Carcinogenic Potency / M.J. Goddard, Daniel Krewski and Yiliang Zhu -- Ch. 11. Environmental Pollution and Human Health: An Epidemiology Perspective / Joel Schwartz -- Ch. 12. Soil Quality as a Component of Environmental Quality / Michael A. Cole -- Ch. 13. Gauging the Future Challenges for Environmental Management: Some Lessons from Organizations with Effective Outlook Capabilities / Mark A. Boroush -- Ch. 14. Creating Strategic Visions / Charles W. Taylor -- Ch. 15. Exploring Future Environmental Risks / David W. Rejeski -- Ch. 16. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Environmental Decision Making / Alvin M. Pesachowitz. Ch. 17. Mechanisms to Access Information About Spatial Data / Eliot J. Christian and Timothy L. Gauslin -- Ch. 18. The Quality of Environmental Databases / David A. Marker and Svetlana Ryaboy -- Ch. 19. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Status and Trends Mussel Watch Program: National Monitoring of Chemical Contamination in the Coastal United States / Thomas P. O'Connor -- Ch. 20. Some Problems of "Safe Dose" Estimation / Asit P. Basu, Gary F. Krause, Kai Sun, Mark Ellersieck and Foster J. Mayer, Jr. -- Ch. 21. Where Next? Adaptive Measurement Site Selection for Area Remediation / H.T. David and Seongmo Yoo -- Ch. 22. The Center for Environmental Statistics: Interim Status and Vision of Products / Brand Niemann, Carroll Curtis and Eleanor Leonard -- Conclusion: Environmental Statistics: Where Do We Go From Here? / N. Philip Ross and C. Richard Cothern.