Predicting New Hampshire indoor radon concentrations from geologic information and other covariates

Environmental Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-194

  Apte, M G ^a   Price, P N ^a   Nero, A V ^a   Revzan, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Radon

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; INDOOR RADON; RADON;

UNITED STATES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIUM; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; GLACIAL DEPOSITS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0032586182     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540050376     Document Type: Article

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