- Tenth International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
- Edited by Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
Assessment of the quality of marine bathing waters using different methods of percentile calculation
- Diana Mance
- Zrinka Vrček
- Arijana Cenov
- Marin Glad
- Davor Mance
- Darija Vukic Lušic
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.82
Escherichia coli (E. coli) and intestinal enterococci (ENT) are the indicator bacteria used to test the microbiological quality of bathing water. In Croatia, the quality of bathing water is assessed by parametric method i.e. on the basis of the 90th and 95th percentile values which are calculated using the corresponding arithmetic mean and standard deviation of the logarithmic bacterial concentrations. There are also non-parametric methods for determining the value of a particular percentile, and one of them is the so-called Hazen method. In this work, we study how the different methods of percentile calculation affect the assessment of coastal bathing water quality. We have chosen a "problematic" location with frequently elevated bacterial concentrations as a test site.The results show that in the case of E. coli, the 95th percentile values calculated using the Hazen method are significantly lower than those calculated using the parametric method (Wilcoxon rank test, p < 0.05), while for ENT there was no statistically significant difference. For case of annual assessment, the difference in coastal bathing water quality was statistically significant for both ENT and E. coli (McNemar test, p=0.004 and p=0.02 respectively). In the final classification, the difference in coastal bathing waters quality was statistically significant only in the case of E. coli (McNemar test, p=0.025).
- Keywords:
- microbiology,
- bathing water quality,
- statistical methods,
- Hazen percentile method,
University of Rijeka, Croatia - ORCID: 0000-0001-6746-8693
University of Rijeka, Croatia
University of Rijeka, Croatia - ORCID: 0000-0002-6731-7868
University of Rijeka, Croatia - ORCID: 0000-0001-9567-3897
University of Rijeka, Croatia - ORCID: 0000-0002-6206-2464
University of Rijeka, Croatia - ORCID: 0000-0003-0534-2547
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Assessment of the quality of marine bathing waters using different methods of percentile calculation
Authors
Diana Mance, Zrinka Vrček, Arijana Cenov, Marin Glad, Davor Mance, Darija Vukic Lušic
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.82
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2024
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Book Title
Tenth International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Book Subtitle
Livorno (Italy) 11th-13th June 2024
Editors
Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6
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Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
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2975-0288