Non-parametric estimation of thresholds for radiation effects in vertebrate species under chronic low-LET exposures

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-404

  Sazykina, Tatiana G ^a   Kryshev, A I ^a   Sanina, K D ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP METHOD; DATA SETS; DOSE RATE; LOW-LET RADIATION; MORBIDITY EFFECTS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL METHODS; ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; THRESHOLD DOSE; VERTEBRATE SPECIES;

LIGHTING FIXTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA BASE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LIFESPAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70350614199     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0233-0     Document Type: Article

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