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SUBMITTER: Pena EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5173468 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peña Edsel A EA Wu Wensong W Piegorsch Walter W West Ronald W RW An LingLing L
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis 20160620 4
This article describes several approaches for estimating the benchmark dose (BMD) in a risk assessment study with quantal dose-response data and when there are competing model classes for the dose-response function. Strategies involving a two-step approach, a model-averaging approach, a focused-inference approach, and a nonparametric approach based on a PAVA-based estimator of the dose-response function are described and compared. Attention is raised to the perils involved in data "double-dippin ...[more]