Environmental health
Subtitle: quantitative methods : proceedings of a conference
By: sponsored by SIAM Institute for Mathematics and Society and supported by the National Science Foundation, at Alta, Utah, July 5-9, 1976 ; Alice Whittemore, editor
Contributors: SIAM Institute for Mathematics and Society
Publisher: SIAM
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Statistical methods; Hygiène du milieu; Carcinogenesis; Méthodes statistiques; Congrès; Cancérogenèse; Environmentally induced diseases; Congresses; Maladies de l'environnement; Environmental health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pharmacokinetic considerations in environmental toxicology / Kenneth B. Bischoff; title: Can we use animal data to estimate "safe" doses for chemical carcinogens? / H.A. Guess & K.S. Crump; title: A bayesian approach to assessing population risks from environmental carcinogens / Bernard Altshuler; title: Statistical methods for assessing risk following exposure to environmental carcinogens / Bernard S. Pasternack & Roy E. Shore; title: Epidemiological implications of the multistage theory of carcinogenesis / Alice Whittemore; title: Some statistical models useful in the study of occupational mortality / Norman Breslow; title: The establishment of industrial hygiene standards: an example / Julian Peto; title: Cancer rates- functions of carcinogens and anticarcinogens / Birger Jansson; title: Human leukemia: kinetic aspects and speculations concerning its cellular origins / S.I. Rubinow; title: Immunological reactions to malignancies: some additional sources of complexity / Charles DeLisi; title: Mutational models of carcinogenesis / Herbert W. Hethcote; title: A theory of transformed cell growth with applications to initiation-promotion data / Joseph B. Keller & Alice Whittemore; title: Analysis of high dose methotrexate clinical trial data using CLINFO (a small computer data analysis system) / Thomas L. Lincoln ... [et al.]; title: Problems in relating health effects to air pollution / Yvonne M.M. Bishop, B.G. Ferris, & F.E. Speizer; title: The use of doubly stochastic poisson processes inestimating health effects due to air pollution / Jack Cuzick; title: The interpolation of air pollution: a stochastic approach / Ray E. Faith; title: Some thoughts about assessing adequacy of the fineness of a grid of monitoring stations / Lincoln E. Moses.