Meta-Analytic Approaches for Multistressor Dose-Response Function Development: Strengths, Limitations, and Case Studies

Risk Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1040-1049

  Levy, Jonathan I ^a   Fabian, M Patricia ^a   Peters, Junenette L ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative risk assessment; Discrete event simulation; Epidemiology; Meta analysis; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ANALYTICS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS;

DOSE-RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS; META ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

ASTHMA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

ASTHMA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84937074282     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12208     Document Type: Article

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