Modeling joint exposures and health outcomes for cumulative risk assessment: the case of radon and smoking.

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Published in Int J Environ Res Public Health on September 13, 2011

Authors

Teresa Chahine1, Bradley D Schultz, Valerie G Zartarian, Jianping Xue, S V Subramanian, Jonathan I Levy

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. tchahine@post.harvard.edu

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