Multi-model inference of adult and childhood leukaemia excess relative risks based on the Japanese A-bomb survivors mortality data (1950-2000)

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-35

  Walsh, Linda ^a   Kaiser, Jan Christian ^b  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RADIATION; BACKGROUND RADIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXCESS RELATIVE RISKS; LOW DOSE; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI-MODEL INFERENCE; NEW YORK; NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS; RISK MODEL; TOTAL RADIATION DOSE; UNITED NATIONS; WEIGHTED MODELS;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952438200     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0337-6     Document Type: Article

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