Upper limits for exceedance probabilities under the one-way random effects model

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 397-406

  Krishnamoorthy, K ^a   Mathew, Thomas ^b   Ramachandran, Gurumurthy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Between and within worker variability; Generalized confidence interval; Generalized P value; Tolerance interval

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

GENERALIZED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERALIZED P-VALUE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMIT (OEL); TOLERANCE INTERVAL;

STATISTICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROBABILITY;

BETWEEN- AND WITHIN-WORKER VARIABILITY; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; GENERALIZED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERALIZED P VALUE; GENERALIZED VARIABLES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMIT; RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL; TOLERANCE INTERVAL;

EID: 34548222237     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mem013     Document Type: Article

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