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Categorical Exposure-Response Regression Analysis of Toxicology Experiments

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Case Studies in Environmental Statistics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics ((LNS,volume 132))

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In the mid-1980s, an accident at the Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal, India released the toxic gas methylisocyanate (MIC) in that densely populated region, killing more than 4000 people and injuring 500,000 others. Even today, many people in Bhopal are affected by illnesses related to that earlier exposure. This notorious industrial disaster not only forced scientists to pay greater attention to identifying and handling of hazardous chemicals but also prompted greater awareness of those common industrial products that contain hazard pollutants.

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  1. National Institute of Statistical Sciences, USA

    Minge Xie

  2. University of Illinois, USA

    Douglas Simpson

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  1. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8203, USA

    Douglas Nychka

  2. Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Walter W. Piegorsch

  3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory (MD-75), Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711, USA

    Lawrence H. Cox

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Xie, M., Simpson, D. (1998). Categorical Exposure-Response Regression Analysis of Toxicology Experiments. In: Nychka, D., Piegorsch, W.W., Cox, L.H. (eds) Case Studies in Environmental Statistics. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 132. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2226-2_7

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