Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 6: Effects of Pollution on Health

Conference: Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Date: June 21-July 18, 1970, April 9-12, June 16-21, and July 19-22, 1971
Location: Statistical Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley

Editors: Lucien M. Le Cam, Jerzy Neyman and Elizabeth L. Scott

Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1972
599 pp.

Subjects:

Mathematical statistics--Congresses
Probabilities
Permanent link to this proceedings: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bsmsp/1200514696
ISSN:0097-0433

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Miscellaneous front pages, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6: Effects of Pollution on Health

Statistical problems and strategies in environmental epidemiology

John R. Goldsmith; 1-28

Application of computer simulation techniques to problems in air pollution

Joseph V. Behar; 29-69

Research Programs of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine relevant to problems of health and pollution

John R. Totter; 71-100

Health intelligence for environmental protection: a demanding challenge

J. F. Finklea, M. F. Cranmer, D. I. Hammer, L. J. McCabe, V. A. Newill and C. M. Shy; 101-109

CHESS, a community health and environmental surveillance system

Wilson B. Riggan, Douglas I. Hammer, John F. Finklea, V. Hasselblad, Charles R. Sharp, Robert M. Burton and Carl M. Shy; 111-123

Statistical aspects of a community health and environmental surveillance system

William C. Nelson, Victor Hasselblad and Gene R. Lowrimore; 125-133

Survey strategies for estimating rare health attributes

Monroe G. Sirken; 135-144

Environmental radiation and human health

Ernest J. Sternglass; 145-221

Statistical studies of the effect of low level radiation from nuclear reactors on human health

Morris H. DeGroot; 223-234

Epidemiologic studies of carcinogenesis by ionizing radiation

John F. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin; 235-277

Infant mortality around three nuclear power reactors

Edythalena A. Tompkins, Peggy M. Hamilton and Daniel A. Hoffman; 279-290

Population exposure to radiation: natural and man-made

V. L. Sailor; 291-311

Radiation and risk—the source data

H. Wade Patterson and Ralph H. Thomas; 313-344

Radiation and infant mortality—some hazards of methodology

Emanuel Landau; 345-353

Monitoring human birth defects: methods and strategies

Ernest B. Hook; 355-366

A method for monitoring adverse drug reactions

Gary D. Friedman and Morris F. Collen; 367-382

Chemical induction of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis

Alec D. Keith; 383-391

A biochemical approach to mutation monitoring in man

M. C. Clark, D. Goodman and A. C. Wilson; 393-399

X-ray fluorescence—an improved analytical tool for trace element studies

Frederick S. Goulding; 401-431

Averaging time and maxima for air pollution concentrations

Richard E. Barlow; 433-442

Effects of environmental pollutants upon animals other than man

Robert W. Risebrough; 443-463

Implications of environmental strontium 90 accumulation in teeth and bone of children

Harold L. Rosenthal; 465-478

Problems in determining if a commonly used herbicide (2,4,5-t) has an effect on human health

Theodor D. Sterling; 479-494

Ecological and environmental problems in the application of biomathematics

Burton E. Vaughan; 495-510

Possible manifestations of worsening environmental pollution

William R. Gaffey; 511-519

Effects of toxicity on ecosystems

Robert W. Gill; 521-532

Demographic data for local areas

Harley B. Messinger; 533-537

Utility or futility of ordinary mortality sttistics in the study of air pollution effects

Warren Winkelstein; 539-554

Skeletal plan for a comprehensive epidemiologic study of pollution: effects of exposure on growth and development of children

John R. Goldsmith; 555-557

Skeletal plan for a study of daily mortality

Alfred C. Hexter; 559-559

Skeletal plan of a comprehensive statistical health-pollution study

Jerzy Neyman; 561-566

Some skeletal plans for studying health effects of air pollution

Hans K. Ury; 567-569

Summary of panel discussion planning a comprehensive study of effects of pollution on health

E. L. Scott; 571-574

Epilogue of the health-pollution conference

Jerzy Neyman; 575-587

Index, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Vol. 1-6

Jerzy Neyman; 589-599

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