Enviromental genotoxicity evaluation: Bayesian approach for a mixture statistical model

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 267-278

  Bueno, A M De S ^a   Pereira, C A De B ^b   Rabello Gay, M N ^c   Stern, J M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beta (negative) Binomial distribution; Beta Poisson distribution; Cell proliferative indices; Micronucleated cells; Mixture of Beta distributions; Prior and posterior probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044532069     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-002-0100-x     Document Type: Review

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