Partitioning total variance in risk assessment: Application to a municipal solid waste incinerator

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-261

  Kumar, Vikas ^a,b   Mari, Montse ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set; Health risks; Latin Hypercube Sampling; Municipal solid waste incinerator; Uncertainty; Variability

Indexed keywords

FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SETS; HEALTH RISKS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; REFUSE INCINERATORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WASTE INCINERATION;

LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS; STOCHASTIC UNCERTAINTIES; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY AND VARIABILITY; VARIABILITY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEALTH RISK; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BASQUE COUNTRY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 53149137392     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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