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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