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

✍ Scribed by Julia Pet-Edwards, Yacov Y. Haimes, Vira Chankong, Herbert S. Rosenkranz, Fanny K. Ennever (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 213
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Carcinogenicity Prediction and Battery Selection Approach....Pages 3-14
Fundamental Basics of the CPBS Approach....Pages 15-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-66
Preliminary Analysis....Pages 67-123
Battery Selection....Pages 125-164
Risk Assessment Using Test Results....Pages 165-173
Applications of CPBS to Cancer Hazard Identification....Pages 175-202
Epilogue....Pages 203-205
Back Matter....Pages 207-211

✦ Subjects

Waste Management/Waste Technology; Ecotoxicology; Environmental Management

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