Evaluating variability and uncertainty separately in microbial quantitative risk assessment using two R packages

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 330-340

  Pouillot, Régis ^a   Delignette Muller, Marie Laure ^b,c,d  

^a Université de Lyon ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d VETAGRO SUP   (France)

Author keywords

Distribution fitting; Freeware tools; Microbial quantitative risk assessment; Second order Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COOKING; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FITDISTRPLUS; FOOD SAFETY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HISTOGRAM; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MC2D; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RED MEAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; UREMIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77955843466     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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