A non-parametric framework for estimating threshold limit values

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Salanti, Georgia ^a   Ulm, Kurt ^b  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKPLACE; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BRONCHITIS, CHRONIC; DUST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; DUST;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALGORITHMS; BRONCHITIS, CHRONIC; DATA COLLECTION; DUST; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES;

EID: 28644441428     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-5-36     Document Type: Article

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