Methodology for Reliable Assessment of Water Quality. VI. Expert-Statistical Assessment Methods Accounting for Measurement and Standardization Errors

Expert–statistical methods for water quality assessment are proposed, based on formalized expert judgments, including evaluations derived from Harrington’s desirability function and Taguchi’s quality loss function. It is shown that due to their simplicity and acceptable accuracy, these approaches can be strong competitors to probabilistic methodologies traditionally applied in water quality assessment.