An empirical multivariate log-normal distribution representing uncertainty of biokinetic parameters for 137CsG Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:198-211. 2008
..The importance sampling method gives much smaller sampling uncertainty. No sampling method-dependent differences are perceptible for the uniform distribution methods...
- Uncertainties in internal doses calculated for Mayak workers--a study of 63 cases
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:316-30. 2008
..The main conclusion of the study is that these methods are now ready to be applied to the entire Mayak worker population...
Bayesian prior probability distributions for internal dosimetryG Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 94:347-52. 2001
..Plutonium internal dosimetry at Los Alamos is now being done using prior probability distribution parameters determined self-consistently from population averages of Los Alamos data...
- A study of early Los Alamos internal exposures to plutonium
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS M992, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 130:503-9. 2008
..The urine bioassay data from this time period were not of high quality, and the more accurate intake prior tempers the effect of spurious high samples, which were probably caused by sample contamination...
- IMPDOS (improved dosimetry and risk assessment for plutonium-induced diseases): internal dosimetry software tools developed for the Mayak worker study
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131:308-15. 2008
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- Internal dosimetry verification and validation database
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:361-9. 2007
..A 'correct' result has been defined in two ways: (1) that the credible limits of the calculated dose include the correct dose and (2) that the calculated dose is within a factor of 2 of the correct dose...
- Internal dose assessment data management system for a large population of Pu workers
L Bertelli
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G761, RP 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 127:347-9. 2007
..The software also provides summary status and reports of the pending DAs, which are useful for managing the cases in process...
- Internal dosimetry of uranium isotopes using Bayesian inference methods
T T Little
MS E546, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 105:413-6. 2003
..We also discuss the problem of distinguishing occupational intakes from intake of environmental uranium, within a Bayesian framework...
- The application of Bayesian techniques in the interpretation of bioassay data
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 105:333-8. 2003
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- Worldwide bioassay data resources for plutonium/americium internal dosimetry studies
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, HSR 12, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 125:531-7. 2007
..A case is made for a uniform standard for database format, and the XML standard is discussed...
- Bayesian hypothesis testing-use in interpretation of measurements
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS E546, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Health Phys 94:248-54. 2008
..Real numerical examples are given and discussed, including the distribution of the non-null hypothesis probability over 4,000 internal dosimetry cases. Currently used comparable methods based on classical statistics are discussed...
- Analyzing bioassay data using Bayesian methods--a primer
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 87545, USA
Health Phys 78:598-613. 2000
..Four times sigma0 rather than approximately two times sigma0, as in classical statistics, would seem a better choice for the decision level in these situations...
- Internal dosimetry for inhalation of hafnium tritide aerosols
W C Inkret
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 93:55-60. 2001
..Review of in vitro dissolution data, development of a biokinetic model, and determination of secondary limits for 1 micron AMAD particles are presented and discussed...
- Bayesian internal dosimetry calculations using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
G Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 87545, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 98:191-8. 2002
..The method appears definitive, but its application requires a large amount of computing time...
