Estimating distributions out of qualitative and (semi)quantitative microbiological contamination data for use in risk assessment

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-269

  Busschaert, P ^a,b   Geeraerd, A H ^a,b   Uyttendaele, M ^c   Van Impe, J F ^a,b  

^a CPMF2   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping method; Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE); Quantitative microbiological risk assessment; Second order Monte Carlo simulation; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CAMPYLOBACTER; FISH PRODUCTS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CAMPYLOBACTER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 77949571494     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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