Combining Risks from Several Tumors Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Uncertainty Modeling in Dose Response: Bench Testing Environmental Toxicity

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 197-205

  Kopylev, Leonid ^a   Fox, John ^a   Chen, Chao ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods for probability distribution calculation in composite cancer risk estimate; Combining risks for multistage model; Combining risks from tumors using MCMC

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TUMORS;

CANCER RISK; COMBINING RISKS FROM TUMORS USING MCMC; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; MULTI-STAGE MODELS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84949035441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470481400.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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