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Next Steps

This concludes the guided tour. Now that you have some feel for how the EDT can be used, we invite you to try it out for yourself. Environmental decision-making is a complex process and no single view of regional conditions or vulnerabilities can sufficiently represent the many factors that could be considered. Our goal in creating the EDT has been to help people gain a broader understanding of the complex interactions that influence environmental health.

To learn more or to use the tool, check out these pages:

  • Tutorial - this part of the EDT provides more detailed information about the statistics used to integrate data and model results as well as which integration method should be used for different assessment questions. It also provides information about data preparation.
  • Online User's Guide - the user's guide provides specific guidance for how to access the full capabilities of the EDT.
  • Glossary - direct links are provided to define highlighted words throughout the EDT.
  • Bottom-line data analysis - this part of the tool is designed for those who want to see the bottom-line without delving deeply into the data. It has a number of default variables preselected for different assessment questions.
  • Full data analysis - use of this capability requires a good understanding of the available data and statistical relationships. The analytical part of the tool can be used to explore possible relationships between and among different variables, display individual variables, drill-down to individual watersheds, etc.
 
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