Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6393161 | Food Control | 2013 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
⺠The evaluation of bacterial concentration distribution is a key element in QMRA. ⺠A common practice is to fit a distribution from censored microbiological enumeration data. ⺠Fitting a distribution from censored microbiological data leads to biased estimates. ⺠A complete likelihood maximization method from MPN patterns should be preferred.
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Authors
Régis Pouillot, Karin Hoelzer, Yuhuan Chen, Sherri Dennis,