Assessing environmental exposure to PCBs among Mohawks at Akwesasne through the use of geostatistical methods

Environmental Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages

  Hwang, Syni An ^a   Fitzgerald, Edward F ^a   Cayo, Mike ^a   Yang, Bao Zhu ^a   Tarbell, Alice ^b   Jacobs, Agnes ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Geostatistics; GIS; PCB; Proportional sampling

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

GEOSTATISTICS; HEALTH IMPACT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PCB;

AMERICAN INDIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SOIL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AKWESASNE; CANADA; QUEBEC;

EID: 0033032047     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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