{"product_id":"9781441950482","title":"Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGeorge Christakos | Dionissios Hristopulos\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedical \/ Public Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSpatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A  Tractatus\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eStochasticus\u003c\/em\u003e provides a holistic, conceptual and  quantitative framework for Environmental Health Modelling in  space-time. The holistic framework integrates two aspects of  Environmental Health Science that have been previously treated  separately: the environmental aspect, which involves the natural  processes that bring about human exposure to harmful substances; and  the health aspect, which focuses on the interactions of these  substances with the human body. Some of the fundamental issues  addressed in this work include variability, scale, uncertainty, and  space-time connectivity. These topics are important in the  characterization of natural systems and health processes. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eSpatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003eStochasticus\u003c\/em\u003e explains why modern stochastics is the appropriate  mechanical vehicle for addressing such issues in a rigorous way. In  particular, modern stochastics incorporates concepts and methods from  probability, classical statistics, geostatistics, statistical  mechanics and field theory. The authors present a synthetic view of  environmental health that embraces all of the various components and  focuses on their mutual interactions. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eSpatiotemporal Environmental Health Modeling: A Tractatus  Stochasticus\u003c\/em\u003e includes new material on Bayesian maximum entropy  estimation techniques and space-time random field estimation methods.  The authors show why these methods have clear advantages over the  classical geostatistical estimation procedures and how they can be  used to provide accurate space-time maps of environmental health  processes. Also included are expositions of diagrammatic perturbation  and renormalization group analysis, which have not been previously  discussed within the context of Environmental Health. Finally, the  authors present stochastic indicators that can be used for large-scale  characterization of contamination and investigations of health effects  at the microscopic level. \u003cbr\u003e  This book will be a useful reference to both researchers and  practitioners of Environmental Health Sciences. It will appeal  specifically to environmental engineers, geographers,  geostatisticians, earth scientists, toxicologists, epidemiologists,  pharmacologists, applied mathematicians, physicists and biologists.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e03 December 2010\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer US\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781441950482\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e400\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51557743034508,"sku":"9781441950482","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781441950482.jpg?v=1784778059","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781441950482","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}