Abstract
Risk assessment of pesticides can be a statistically difficult problem because pesticides occur only occasionally, but they may occur on multiple components in the diet. A Bayesian statistical model is presented which incorporates multivariate modelling of food consumption and modelling of pesticide measurements which are for a large part below a measurement threshold. It is shown that Bayesian modelling is feasible for a limited number of food components, and that in a data-rich situation the model compares well with an empirical Monte Carlo modelling
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 759-766 |
Journal | Pest Management Science |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- food chemicals
- validation
- regression
- models