Risk Assessment with Time to Event Models

by Mark Crane (Editor), Michael C. Newman (Editor), Peter F. Chapman (Editor), John S. Fenlon (Editor)

Overview

How can environmental regulators use information on 48-hour toxicity tests to predict the effects of a few minutes of pollution? Or, at the other extreme, what is the relevance of 96-hour toxicity data for organisms that may have been exposed to a pollutant for six months or more? Time to event methods are the key to answering these types of questi

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040205174
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mark Crane, Michael C. Newman, Peter F. Chapman, John S. Fenlon

Table of Contents

Introduction to Time to Event Methods. Time to Event Analysis of Standard Ecotoxicity Data. Applying Time to Event Methods to Assess Pollutant Effects on Populations. Time-Concentration-Effect Models in Predicting Chronic Toxicity from Acute Toxicity Data. Just How Much Better is a Time to Event Analysis? Using Time to Event Modeling to Assess the Ecological Risk of Produced Water Discharges. Time to Event Analysis in the Agricultural Sciences. Time to Event Analysis in Ecology. Time to Event Methods in Engineering. Can Risk Assessment be Improved with Time to Event Models? Conclusions.

Editorial Reviews

Explains how data collected at regular time intervals during short experiments can be used to improve risk assessment in environmental toxicology and chemistry by using time to event models that are common in other disciplines. The ten chapters describe simple approaches that address the influence of time on toxic effects, the advantages offered by time to event methods for predicting effect on population demographics and genetics, models that predict chronic toxicity from acute toxicity data, and assessment of water discharged from oil and gas platforms. Example applications of time to event analysis are provided from agriculture, ecology, and engineering. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)