Uncertainties in radioecological assessment models-Their nature and approaches to reduce them

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1750-1753

  Kirchner, G ^a   Steiner, M ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aleatory uncertainty; Epistemic uncertainty; Radioecological model; Second order random variable; Variability

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; ASSESSMENT MODELS; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DEGREE OF RELIABILITY; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; INPUT PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; RADIATION EXPOSURES; RADIOECOLOGICAL; RADIOECOLOGICAL MODEL; SECOND-ORDER RANDOM VARIABLE; VARIABILITY;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

CARBON 14; CESIUM 137; STRONTIUM 90;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HUMAN; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50649105491     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2007.09.021     Document Type: Article

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