On 'toxicity equivalent factors' and 'relative potency' to account for differential toxicity and carcinogenicity: Concerns about uncommon effects of dose in animal experiments and environmental exposures to humans

Environmetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 525-539

  Jones, Troyce D ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finney mean; Harmonic mean; LD 50; Mixtures; Relative potency; Toxicity equivalent factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031712552     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199809/10)9:5<525::AID-ENV321>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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