Estimating upper confidence limits for extra risk in quantal multistage models

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• Personal Author:
  Bailer AJ ; Smith RJ ; Bailer AJ ; Smith RJ
• Description:
  Models for constructing upper confidence limit estimates of carcinogenic risk were compared. Upper confidence limits on risk were determined in a simulation study of carcinogenicity experiments using two bootstrap methods and compared with those obtained using commonly used likelihood based models. The models examined in the study were described. Parametric bootstrap and likelihood based methods gave better coverage probabilities compared with a nonparametric bootstrap model. The likelihood procedure tended to provide estimates higher than that of true extra risk and was more variable than the bootstrap procedures. The distance from the true extra risk was found to decrease with increasing background tumor rates and the amount of curvature in the actual underlying dose response function was found to affect the relative bias of all estimators. The authors conclude that although the likelihood based method had the best coverage probability properties, the parametric bootstrap procedure was less biased and less variable; however, neither method is considered sufficient for highly curved dose response patterns. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Carcinogens Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Analytical-models Author Keywords: Dose-response Models Bootstrapping Carcinogenesis Dose-response Likelihood-based Confidence Intervals Mathematical-models NIOSH-Author Risk-analysis Risk-factors Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  0272-4332
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSDTT - Division of Standards Development and Technology Transfer ; DSDTT - Division of Standards Development and Technology Transfer
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00227372
• Citation:
  Risk Analysis 1994 Dec; 14(6):1001-1010
• Contact Point Address:
  Risk Assessment Program, Division of Standards Development and Technology Transfer, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Risk Analysis
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:86998b12faa9f019f5c64575fc4fb08ad41487dc9f63156e889415be71e7125d6df0253c98b0bb86fc028e517a9191a78f1c69086b81c30993965d657d078318
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/204647/cdc_204647_DS1.pdf
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