Mean testing: I. advantages and disadvantages

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 339-346

  Hewett, Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031007057     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1997.10389516     Document Type: Article

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