Recommended Distributions for Exposure Factors Frequently Used in Health Risk Assessment

Risk Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 533-553

  Finley, Brent ^a,b   Proctor, Deborah ^a,b   Scott, Paul ^a,b   Harrington, Natalie ^a,c   Paustenbach, Dennis ^a,b   Price, Paul ^a,c  

^a ChemRisk–a division of McLaren/Hart Environmental Engineering ^*

^b NONE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

exposure factors; Monte Carlo analysis; Probability distributions; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOIL POLLUTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0028071605     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00269.x     Document Type: Article

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