Probabilistic sensitivity analysis of public health risk assessment from contaminated soil

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 285-306

  Hamed, Maged M ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Modeling; Monte carlo; Probability; Public health; Reliability; Risk; Sensitivity; Soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008191177     PISSN: 10588337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10588339991339342     Document Type: Article

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