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orthogonal polynomial expansion 118 probabiliorism 229
ozone: 2, 3, 7, 8 probabilistic causation 98
- burden map 183 probabilistic character (soft data) 86
- concentration 73 probabilistic logic 86-7
- distribution 2 probability density function (pdf):
- exposure 167 - asymmetric posterior 153
- field 73 - BME posterior 218
- hole 1 - non-Gaussian 221
P - noninformative prior 105
Pacific ocean 4 - symmetric 150
partial differential equation (pde) 2,81 psychology 17
particulate matter (PMio) 188, 190, pure inductive approach 11,13, 18
193.203,206 Pythagorean formula 43
partition function 107 R
passive transformations 37 radioactivity 7
pdf (see probability density function) radon concentration 2
PEP (physico-epidemiologic predictabil- random field (RF) 14, 59-60,211,230-31,
ity, q.v.) 185-88, 190, 192 250-52, 254, 256-57
perception (human faculty of) 1 ratio scale data 83
percolation fractal 44 rear mirror metaphor 207
performance function 181 rectangular coordinate systems: 37, 48
permissibility conditions 63 - Cartesian 35
permissibility criteria 64 - Euclidean 36
perturbation approximation 82,215 regression 15
petroleum engineering 8 relativistic geostatistics 55
physical: relativistic representation of space/
- knowledge classification 14 time 52
- law 76-8, 109, 111 relativity theory 12
- map conditionals 98, 100 reliability index 182
- modeler 2 remote sensing 6
- theory-free (techniques) 11 response-damage model 183
physical knowledge ^10, 30, 53-4, 71 response-damage relationship 182
physico-epidemiologic predictability Riemannian:
(PEP): 185 - coordinate system 35, 41
- analysis 188 - distance 46
- criterion 186, 187 - geometry 30-31
- parameter 190, 192 - metric 51
- predictability 187
Plato, "Reason of" 91, 195-6 - space 46
plausible logical principles 18 risk analysis 181
PM (see particulate matter) risk assessment 17
point-block covariance 167 "rosebud" 267-68
point covariance 167 S
point (sample)-block averaged satellite data 7
variogram 169 scaling exponent 256
polar coordinate system 35, 37, 46, 48 scientific content 15, 18
pollutant 6-8, 186 scientific demonstration 135
pollutokinetic 182-83 scientific reasoning 11
polynomial interpolation 1 5 seismic tomography 3
Popperian falsification principle 123 self-similar (fractal spaces) 44
porosity data 143 semivariogram 61
porous medium 4 separable covariance 224, 228
position-line 27 separable covariance model 1 58
posterior BME information 121 separate metrical structure 42-3, 53
posterior mapping probability 95 series truncation 118
posterior operator 126 Shannon information measure 104
posterior stage 91, 95, 120 Sherlock Holmes 229
pragmatic framework 103 sickle-cell anemia gene 10
prior mapping probability 95 signal processing 254
prior stage 91-2, 104, 143 simple kriging (SK) 143, 221, 233-34