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Activity Number: 371
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Abstract - #306612
Title: Visual Sample Plan (VSP) Software: What Is It, and How To Use It?
Author(s): John Wilson*+ and Lisa Nuffer and Brent A. Pulsipher
Companies: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Battelle-PNNL
Address: , Grand Junction, 81505,
Keywords: VSP software ; environmental sampling ; data quality objectives (DQO) systematic planning
Abstract:

Visual Sample Plan (VSP) is a user-friendly, widely used graphic software tool for helping nonstatisticians determine statistically defensible number and location of environmental samples for various sampling objectives and designs for environmental contaminants. VSP is a data quality objectives--based systematic planning tool developed with funding from multiple government agencies since 1997. The Statistical Sciences group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory continues to expand the capability and functionality of VSP, which now has thousands of users worldwide. This paper provides an overview of VSP, including determination and placement of sampling locations on site maps for various sampling objectives and designs; data analysis capabilities; and the automatic generation of a report that documents the developed design, assumptions, and results.

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