| Advances in Sampling and Monitoring (PDF 15pp, 207K) |
- Visual Sample Plan (B. Pulsipher)
- Heterogeneity Rules: Implications for Environmental Statistics (D.Crumbling)
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| Best Practices in Information Quality Improvement (PDF
8pp, 43K) |
- ORD's Scientific Office of the Future (L.Petterson)
- Application of Software QA Concepts and Procedures to Research
Involving Software Development (R.Wright)
- The Emergent Data Steward (C. Mallory)
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| Detection and Reporting Limits (PDF 17pp, 178K) |
- Method Detection Limits and Reporting Non-Detects in Microbiology (S.Wasson)
- When Laboratorires Should Not Censor Data (C.Davis)
- New Statistical Procedure for Determining MRL Under the UCMR2 (J.
Martin)
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| Environmental Data Quality and Laboratory Systems (PDF
11pp, 108K) |
- The Road to ISO 17025 (J.Bennett)
- Take the Challenge, Initiating a New Laboratory into a Long-Term
Monitoring Program (J. Schofield)
- Data Quality Assurance: Asking Appropriate Questions (J.
Caprio)
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| Environmental Indicators (PDF 2pp, 34K) |
- Quality Considerations in Developing EPA's EI (N.Wentworth,
D.Shaw)
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| Environmental Laboratory Accreditation (PDF 2pp,
38K) |
- Why Lab Accreditations an Essential Element of DQS
- Accreditation Requirements for Laboratories - Quality System
- Accreditation Requirements for Laboratories - PT and On-sites
- Requirements for an Accreditation Body
- Accreditation for Field Measurements and Sampling
- Role of EPA in a National Accreditation Program
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| Environmental Quality Systems Management: Best Practices
and Case Studies (PDF 13pp,
123K) |
- Re-engineering Data Flow Process for a Regional Monitoring Program
(D. Ivanoff)
- Automated Audit Software for the SFWMD (T. Fitzpatrick)
- Spatial Modeling of Environmental Data (A. Debebe)
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| Electronic Tools to Improve Data
Management (PDF
19pp, 325K) |
- Training a Prototype Classification Algorithm to ID Contaminents
for the CCL List (M. Messner)
- A TRI Trend Analysis Tool (N.Neerchal)
- Utilization of 3-D Spinning Plots as Exploratory Tool s (H.Allendar)
- New Environmental Stats Software GiSd (Guided Interactive Statistical
Decision Tools ) (D. Bronson, K. Black)
- HMSI Monitoring System: A Tool for Long-Term Remediation Performance
Monitoring (W. Michael)
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| Project Planning & Assessment (PDF 23pp,
425K) |
- Data Quality Objectives for Atrazine Monitoring (M.Messner)
- Challenges of Implementing Project-Level QA for Environmental Projects
in Developing Countries (I.Salau)
- Steps to Take to Ensure that Data are Usable, Meaningful and Legally
Defensible (J.McAteer)
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| Quality Documentation & Records (PDF 10pp,
111K) |
- Managing Field and Laboratory Records for Environmental Investigations (K.Matthews)
- Virtual TSA of Research QA and Records Management Systems (T.Hughes)
- QA Documentation and Information Quality: The Common Thread that
Binds (D.Weingart Webb)
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| Quality Improvement and International Quality Standards (PDF
8pp, 81K) |
- Effective Management Review for Improving ISO9000 and E4 Quality
Management (C.Hedin)
- Information Compliance with ISO 14000 (M.Sullivan)
|
| Quality Improvement Practices in the EPA Office of Environmental
Information (PDF 4pp, 84K) |
- QA/QC - Who Determines the Quality and What Is Being Controlled? (P.
Garvey)
- Quality Activities within OEI's Office of Information Analysis
and Access (N. Wentworth)
|
| Quality Program and Quality Improvements
in the EPA Office of Environmental Information (PDF 4pp, 26K) |
- Guide to Information and Quality Standards & Policies Applicable
to EPA Operations (E.Haddad)
- Challenges in Integrating Performance Measures and Quality Operations
(J. Worthington)
- Building/Implementing a Web-based QS for OEI (K.Hull)
|
| Quality System Development (PDF 8pp, 45K) |
- Developing a Quality System for the National Children's Study (D.Michael)
- Implementation of the UFP for QA Plans (M.Carter, B. Runyon)
- Integrating the EPA Quality System with the National Water Program
(K.Boynton)
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| Quality Systems Implementation (PDF 11pp, 98K) |
- Stages of QS Implementation (L.Blume)
- Painful Stages in the Implementation of Quality Systems & Graded
Approach for Assessing Quality Systems for State, Tribal and Local
Agencies (A. Kahn, D. Johnson, S. Stubbs)
- Financing Quality Systems During Multiple Stages of Implementation (L.
Blume)
- QA Plans for Tribal Pesticide Enforcement Programs (D. Taylor)
- America's Next QAPP Model (M. Kantz)
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| Quality System Policy Framework (PDF 3pp, 53K) |
- Status and Next Steps for EPA's QA Policy (R.Shafer)
- Guide to Integrating Management Systems (J.Worthington,
K.Hull, E.Haddad)
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| Topics in Hurricane Response (PDF 3pp, 41K) |
- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Region 6 Laboratory Response (D. Gregg)
- Ambient Air Monitoring and QA in the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Relief (G. Noah)
|
| Workshop: Avoiding Statistical Pitfalls in Environmental
Science (PDF 2pp, 44K) |
- Getting the Right Statistical Answers for Contaminated Sites (D.Crumbling,
S. Dyment, M. Moore)
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- Overview of Environmental Statistics Courses at NCSU (W.Hunt)
- NCSU Student Presentations (B.Hare, E.Holland, F. Hornsby
and
W.Jackson)
- EPA Perspective on Student Projects (B. Nussbaum)
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| Methodological Advances in Quality Measurement and Assessment (PDF 14pp, 396K) |
- Confidence Intervals Revisited (P.Lacayo)
- Monitoring the Long-Memory Air Quality Data Using ARFIMA Model
(S.Chen)
- Combining Classical Analyses with Practicality: A Different Look
at the STN Versus IMPROVE Network (L.Camalier)
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| Recent Applications of SAS in Health and Environmental Analyses (PDF 10pp, 106K) |
- Air Explorer - Powerful Web-Driven Tools (D.Mintz)
- Quality Improvement through the Use of Compiled SAS Macros for
Environmental Risk Assessment (S.Fleming)
- Strategies for Statistical Analysis with SAS System 9 (J.Stultz)
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| Statistical Issues for Health and the Environment (PDF
13pp, 287K) |
- Statistical Methods to Analyze Occupational Safety Data of DOE
Facilities (R.
Sastry)
- Statistical Issues in the Analysis of the Carcinogenic
Risk of Ethylene Oxide (H. Kahn)
- Partial Least Squares Regression
for Small Sample (M.Nash)
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