Pooled bayesian analysis of twenty-eight studies on radon induced lung cancers

Health Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-273

  Fornalski, Krzysztof Wojciech ^a   Dobrzyński, Ludwik ^a,b  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

analysis statistical; hormesis radiation; lungs human; radiation effects

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80051724675     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31821115bf     Document Type: Article

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