Environmental monitoring based on a hierarchical Poisson-gamma model

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 275-285

  Christensen, Antje ^a   Melgaard, Henrik ^a   Iwersen, Jørgen ^a   Thyregod, Poul ^b  

^a NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Gamma distribution; Hierarchical models; Poisson distribution; Sampling

Indexed keywords

CLEAN ROOMS; DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; HIERARCHICAL POISSON-GAMMA MODEL;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1642560788     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2003.11980221     Document Type: Article

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