A prediction model for assessing residential radon concentration in Switzerland

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 112, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-89

  Hauri, Dimitri D ^a,b   Huss, Anke ^c   Zimmermann, Frank ^d   Kuehni, Claudia E ^e   Röösli, Martin ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose assessment; Exposure modelling; Indoor radon concentration; Linear regression model

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DATA SETS; DOSE ASSESSMENTS; EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; HOUSING TYPES; INDEPENDENT MODEL; INDOOR RADON; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; KAPPA STATISTIC; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MULTI VARIABLES; P-VALUES; PREDICTION MODEL; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; RADON LEVEL; REGRESSION MODEL; SOIL TEXTURES; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; SWITZERLAND;

LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RADON;

RADON;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BUILDING; DATABASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLOOR; MODEL VALIDATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION MODEL; SOIL TEXTURE; SWITZERLAND; URBANIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84861851968     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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