The ability of limited exposure sampling to detect effects of interventions that reduce the occurrence of pronounced trunk inclination

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 295-304

  Mathiassen, Svend Erik ^a   Paquet, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Exposure measurement; Intervention effectiveness

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

BOOTSTRAPPING; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ERGONOMICS INTERVENTION; EXPOSURE DISTRIBUTION; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; INTERVENTION EFFECTIVENESS; POST INTERVENTIONS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JOB PERFORMANCE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPINE MOBILITY; VIDEORECORDING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 70350783860     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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