Backward estimation of exposure to organochlorines using repeated measurements

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 710-716

  Karmaus, Wilfried ^a   Fussman, Christopher ^a   Muttineni, Jyotsna ^a   Zhu, Xiaobei ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward extrapolation; Epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Fish consumption; Great Lakes; Organochlorines

Indexed keywords

MARKER; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE; FAMILY; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442498578     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6761     Document Type: Article

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