A note on comparing exposure data to a regulatory limit in the presence of unexposed and a limit of detection

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 880-887

  Chu, Haitao ^a   Nie, Lei ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection limit; Left censoring; Mixture models; Power; Sample size

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE;

DETECTION LIMITS; EXPOSURE DATA; LEAVE CENSORING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MIXTURE MODELING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POWER; REGULATORY LIMIT; SAMPLE SIZES; ZERO-INFLATED;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 29844449942     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200510174     Document Type: Article

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