The need for new methods to backcalculate soil cleanup targets in interval and probabilistic cancer risk assessments

1 March 1995

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal

Vol. 1 (1) , 89-100
https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039509379985

Abstract

Ordinary algebra may be used to backcalculate health‐based cleanup targets in deterministic risk assessments, but it does not work in interval or probabilistic risk assessments. Equations with interval or random variables do not follow the rules of ordinary algebra. This paper explains the need for more sophisticated methods to backcalculate soil cleanup targets when using interval or random variables.

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