Effect of housing factors and surficial uranium on the spatial prediction of residential radon in Iowa

Environmetrics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 481-497

  Smith, Brian J ^a   Field, R William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Hierarchical bayesian model; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Radon gas; Spatial statistics; Uranium

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; HEALTH RISK; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIUM; RADON; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URANIUM;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447518582     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.816     Document Type: Article

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