Model averaging software for dichotomous dose response risk estimation

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Wheeler, Matthew W ^a,c   Bailer, A John ^b  

^a NIOSH ^*

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Information criteria; Model uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949129469     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v026.i05     Document Type: Article

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