A method for evaluating exposure to nitrous oxides by application of lognormal distribution

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-32

  Borjanovic, Srdjan S ^a   Djordjevic, Srdjan V ^a   Vukovic Pal, Marianne Dj ^a  

^a Inst Occup Hlth Dr Dragomir K   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Fit tests; Gaussian distribution; Geometric mean; Geometric standard deviation

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIFT WORKER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELDING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033037857     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.41.27     Document Type: Article

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