Risk Assessment with Time to Event Models (Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment)
Contributors: Mark Crane (Editor); Michael C. Newman (Editor); Peter F. Chapman (Editor); John S. Fenlon (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781566705820
Subjects: Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building; The Environment; Environmental risk assessment; Ecology; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Ecology; Environmental Science; Technology / Environmental; Methodology
First sentence: Conventional effects metrics, e.g., LC/EC50 and NOEC, focus on exposure intensity while holding duration of exposure constant; exposure intensity is estimated precisely but exposure duration is grossly fixed as acute or chronic.