Nonparametric Statistical Approaches for Benchmark Dose Estimation in Quantitative Risk Assessment

A major component of quantitative risk assessment involves dose-response modeling. Therein, an appropriate statistical model that approximately quantifies the relationship between exposure level (dose) and response (adverse endpoint) is fit to experimental data. The objective of this dissertation...

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Main Author: Xiong, Hui
Other Authors: Piergorsch, Walter W.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202699