Risk assessment for quantitative responses using a mixture model

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 519-527

  Razzaghi, Mehdi ^a,b   Kodell, Ralph L ^b  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; EM algorithm; Nonquantal responses; Susceptibility; Upper confidence limit

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; DOSE RESPONSE; EM ALGORITHMS; LABORATORY ANIMALS; MIXTURE MODELING; NONQUANTAL RESPONSE; RISKS ASSESSMENTS; SUSCEPTIBILITY; UPPER CONFIDENCE LIMIT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0033944220     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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