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Article Dans Une Revue Biometrics Année : 2006

Incomplete generalized U-statistics for food risk assessment

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This article proposes statistical tools for quantitative evaluation of the risk due to the presence of some particular contaminants in food. We focus on the estimation of the probability of the exposure to exceed the so-called provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI), when both consumption data and contamination data are independently available. A Monte Carlo approximation of the plug-in estimator, which may be seen as an incomplete generalized U-statistic, is investigated. We obtain the asymptotic properties of this estimator and propose several confidence intervals, based on two estimators of the asymptotic variance: (i) a bootstrap type estimator and (ii) an approximate jackknife estimator relying on the Hoeffding decomposition of the original U-statistics. As an illustration, we present an evaluation of the exposure to Ochratoxin A in France.

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hal-01068794 , version 1 (26-09-2014)

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Patrice Bertail, Jessica Tressou. Incomplete generalized U-statistics for food risk assessment. Biometrics, 2006, 62 (1), pp.66-71. ⟨10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00401.x⟩. ⟨hal-01068794⟩
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