Percentiles of the product of uncertainty factors for establishing probabilistic reference doses

Risk Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-250

  Gaylor, David W ^a   Kodell, Ralph L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Probabilistic reference dose; Uncertainty factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; HEALTH HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BENCHMARKING; DATABASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0034094567     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.202023     Document Type: Article

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