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3. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL METHODS
3. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL METHODS
Pages 89-93
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The more important general problems that have arisen in oil spill research will be br lefty discussed and areas of study identified where recent developments in statistics may contr ibute to their solution. For the most part, discussions of the role of sampling and statistical design in oil spill studies have been confined to the use of classical statistical methods Cox et al., 1977)
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Studies of oil pollution in the mar ine environment are particularly sub ject to this effect. In the past, but less frequently now, fortunately, several large environmental research programs were constructed by committees in which scientific questions, cost constraints, model processes, and statistical des ~ gn were decided in a more or less haphazard and illog ical order .
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Statistical Design of Analytic Procedures in the Laboratory Often the complexities of environmental studies lead one to overlook the importance of careful design of laboratory analytical procedures. Proper design can prevent confounding of laboratory effects with natural processes that we wish to study.
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used in reports and papers describing oil spill events provides little insight into the character of the processes and the data under investigation. Many of the techniques of exploratory data analysis can be used to investigate these relationships.
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Chemical methods for measur ing petroleum and petroleum compounds and biolog ical methods for measur ing var ious levels of ef feats of petroleum in the mar ine environment have been sub jects of cant inuing controversy and debate since an increase in studies of petroleum pollution in the late 1960s. For this reason chemical and biological methodology is descr ibed and evaluated in the following sections .
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