Confidence intervals for probabilities of exceeding threshold limits with censored log-normal data

Environmetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 247-259

  Wild, Pascal ^a   Hordan, Remy ^b   Leplay, Antoine ^b   Vincent, Raymond ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Censoring; Gibbs sampling; Probabilities; Regulation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE EXPOSURE; CENSORED DATA; GIBBS SAMPLING; INDUSTRIAL SAFETY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROBABILITY; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUE;

EID: 0030461350     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-095x(199605)7:3<247::aid-env208>3.0.co;2-o     Document Type: Article

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