## Background: Latency effects are an important factor in assessing the public health implications of an occupational or environmental exposure. usually, however, latency results as described in the literature are insufficient to answer public health related questions. alternative approaches to the
Modeling epidemiologic studies of occupational cohorts for the quantitative assessment of carcinogenic hazards
β Scribed by Leslie Stayner; Randy Smith; A. John Bailer; E. Georg Luebeck; Suresh H. Moolgavkar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 902 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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