The anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 brought to light a number of uncertainties about how to tell whether a building is clean enough to re-occupy (How effective is sampling? What's the anthrax dose-response curve look like? What's the distribution of spores in a building?, etc.).
As part of his investigation, a colleague of mine constructed the nomograph in this paper, to illustrate the tradeoffs involved. By presenting the uncertainties graphically, the nomograph helps visualize the tradespace, in a way that simply running multiple numerical calculations won't necessarily do.
By the way, this also shows that these are not an entirely lost art.
The anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 brought to light a number of uncertainties about how to tell whether a building is clean enough to re-occupy (How effective is sampling? What's the anthrax dose-response curve look like? What's the distribution of spores in a building?, etc.).
As part of his investigation, a colleague of mine constructed the nomograph in this paper, to illustrate the tradeoffs involved. By presenting the uncertainties graphically, the nomograph helps visualize the tradespace, in a way that simply running multiple numerical calculations won't necessarily do.
By the way, this also shows that these are not an entirely lost art.