Risk Assessment and Decision Making Using Test: The Carcinogenicity Prediction and Battery Selection Approach - Hardcover

Chankong, Vira; Ennever, F. K.; Haimes, Y. Y.; PetEdwards, J.; Rosenkranz, Herbert S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306430673 ISBN 13: 9780306430671

Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

The difficulties associated with making risk assessments on the basis of experimental results are familiar to practitioners in many fields- engineering, epidemiology, chemistry, etc. These difficulties are particularly common in problems that have dynamic and stochastic characteristics driven by multiple purposes and goals, with complex interconnections and inter- dependencies. Acquiring an appropriate data base, processing and analyzing model results, and transmitting these results at an appropriate technical, social, political, and institutional level are additional difficulties that must be addressed. This book is grounded on the premise that risks are best assessed on the basis of experimental results and sound mathematical analyses, coupled with the knowledge of experts. The carcinogenicity prediction and battery selection (ePBS) approach described herein provides a systematic mechan- ism-a synthesis of systems and statistical and decision analyses-to aid researchers and decision makers in the critical field of carcinogenicity prediction in selecting an appropriate battery of tests to use and in translating experimental results into information that can be used as an aid to decision making.

About this title

Synopsis

This text, for college students and researchers, provides most of the mathematical and systems engineering background needed to understand the CPBS approach as well as the details of the approach and a case study of its use in cancer hazard identification. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306430673
• ISBN 13: 9780306430671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220