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It is recommended that this tool should be used by a qualified statistician from your project team. Environmental monitoring involves collecting environmental data to evaluate spatial and temporal trends for chemical concentrations. Environmental monitoring data could consist of chemical analyses of soil, water, air or biotic samples collected over time or space. Typically site monitoring data are evaluated temporally, spatially, or both. This SMARTe tool offers standard statistical methods for displaying temporal and spatial data, and for performing temporal trend tests. The SMARTe statistical tools offered to support monitoring programs include some exploratory data analysis methods (summary statistics and boxplots), time plots, trend estimation, and spatial plots.

It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that the data are formatted appropriately, and to ensure that the data were collected using a sampling scheme that meets the requirements or assumptions of the statistical methods herein. The 'Upload your data' option includes a description of an appropriate data file format that could be used. Subsets of the data may be obtained using the panel and group variables, so that individual chemicals or sites can be evaluated.