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Statistical Methods Used in Assessing the Risk of Disease Near a Source of Possible Environmental Pollution: A Review
Author(s) -
Hills Michael,
Alexander Freda
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2983132
Subject(s) - pollution , environmental science , environmental pollution , environmental health , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental protection , medicine , biology , ecology
SUMMARY Some weaknesses in the usual statistical approach to assessing the risk of disease around potential point sources of environmental pollution are listed. Extensions to take account of extra‐Poisson variability, and to deal with the problem of how to choose an area around the source when little or nothing is known about the distance scale of any possible effect, are reviewed. Techniques for mapping are also briefly reviewed and their relevance to assessing reactive (post hoc) hypotheses is discussed.