User subjectivity in Monte Carlo modeling of pesticide exposure

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2227-2236

  Beulke, Sabine ^a   Brown, Colin D ^a,b   Dubus, Igor G ^c   Galicia, Hector ^d   Jarvis, Nicholas ^e   Schaefer, Dieter ^f   Trevisan, Marco ^g  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c BRGM   (France)

^d Smithers Viscient   (United States)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Degradation; Monte Carlo; Pesticide exposure modeling; Sorption; User subjectivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SORPTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LEACHING ASSESSMENT; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE MODELING; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; USER SUBJECTIVITY;

PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDE;

DEGRADATION; LEACHATE; LEACHING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PESTICIDE; SAMPLING; SORPTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; HUMAN; LEACHING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PESTICIDES; PROBABILITY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 33751069017     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/05-332R.1     Document Type: Article

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