Effects of exposure imprecision on estimation of the benchmark dose

Risk Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1689-1696

  Budtz Jørgensen, Esben ^a,b   Keiding, Niels ^a   Grandjean, Philippe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark dose; Effect of prenatal mercury exposure; Environmental epidemiology; Exposure measurement error; Exposure standards

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE EFFECTS; EXPOSURE ERRORS; PRENATAL MERCURY EXPOSURES; TOXIC SUBSTANCES;

BENCHMARKING; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

DRUG DOSAGE;

MERCURY;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; OBSERVATION; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MERCURY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EID: 11344260393     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0272-4332.2004.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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