Pollution and our Living Environment

Living beyond Our Means

As someone who has been advocating “living beyond one’s means” since before the Reagan administration, I welcome Thomas’s endorsement of the idea. If we embrace the maxim that statistics is about variation then we should stand ready to explore how that variation varies with covariates. Assuming, as theory may tempt us to do, that covariates shift only the central tendency of the response, while...

Microplastics Pollution in the Aquatic Environment: Problems and Challenges

Pharmaceutical Pollution in the Environment and Health Hazards

Our children and the environment.

The publication of research articles in this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives and papers from two important symposia concerning children and their environments in the June issue of EHP Supplements is an encouraging sign of increased attention to the importance of scientific research on the relationship of children to their environments. A recent publication by the National Science and...

To save our environment

An algorithmic approach to constructing mixed-level orthogonal and near-orthogonal arrays Quasi Monte Carlo simulations of Brownian sheet with an application to interest rate stochastic string model A method for generating uniformly scattered points on the Lp-norm unit sphere and its application in statistical simulation A new class of model-robust designs A method for screening active effects ...