Evaluation of putative hazard tests under background risk heterogeneity

Environmetrics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 260-274

  Liu, Yuan ^a   Lawson, Andrew B ^a   Ma, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Heterogeneity; Monte Carlo power; Putative source; Tests

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HETEROGENEITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 65649141182     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.926     Document Type: Article

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