REFINED COMPOSITE SAMPLING FOR ACUTE TOXICITY STANDARD

✍ Scribed by GRACE S. SHIEH

• Book ID: 101276798
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 230 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1180-4009
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-095x(199703)8:2<121::aid-env242>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

When monitoring stable priority pollutants in euents of receiving waters, it is desirable to have a sampling method which reduces analytical work while allowing judgements of compliances to be made. A new method, called re®ned composite sampling (RCS henceforth), is introduced. Via a simulation study, we ®nd that in comparison to daily sampling, RCS does achieve the above goals. Furthermore, RCS performs better than composite sampling in the sense that the combination of the relative eectiveness and the relative eciency is higher.