From sources to biomarkers: A hierarchical Bayesian approach for human exposure modeling

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3361-3379

  Cressie, Noel ^a   Buxton, Bruce E ^b   Calder, Catherine A ^a   Craigmile, Peter F ^a   Dong, Crystal ^a   McMillan, Nancy J ^b   Morara, Michele ^b   Santner, Thomas J ^a   Wang, Ke ^a   Young, Gregory ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic concentration; Gibbs sampler; Global environment; Local environment; MCMC; NHEXAS; Pathways model; Spatial CAR model; US Environmental Protection Agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447505852     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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