Continuous dose-response modeling and risk analysis with the gamma and reciprocal gamma distributions

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 273-293

  Banga, Senin ^a   Patil, Ganapati P ^a   Taillie, Charles ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark dose; Confidence limits; Deviance; Likelihood contour method; Likelihood ratio; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036731838     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016292226899     Document Type: Article

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