New Model for Population-Subpopulation Differences

Abstract

Civil defense planning requires estimates of the toxicity of chemical warfare agents to the general public, but the current toxicity estimates are for male soldiers. In ECBC-TR-224 and ECBC-TR-337, individual susceptibilities for both the general population and the military subpopulation were modeled by a lognormal distribution. The assumption of a lognormal distribution of individual susceptibilities for both the general population and a subpopulation cannot be correct. This report presents an alternative model and compares the previous and new models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA465827

Entities

People

  • Ronald B. Crosier

Organizations

  • Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Civil Defense
  • Data Analysis
  • Defense Planning
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Toxicity
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Toxicology/Environmental Toxicology