Regulating under uncertainty: Newsboy for exposure limits

Risk Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 577-587

  Cooke, Roger M ^a   MacDonell, Margaret ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action levels; Dose response uncertainty; Expert judgment; Health risk; Performance weights; Probabilistic inversion

Indexed keywords

APPLIED (CO); DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; DOSE RESPONSES; EXPERT JUDGMENT; EXPOSURE LIMITS; HEALTH PROTECTION; HIGH DOSE; HIGH-DOSE-RATE (HDR); LOSS RATES; NEWSBOY PROBLEMS; PROBABILISTIC INVERSION; SETTING ACTION; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION (UQ);

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

RISK ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; DOSE RESPONSE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UNCERTAINTY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 45749130183     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01042.x     Document Type: Article

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