Histogram equations simulations, Monte Carlo

The Monte Carlo exposure calculations described in this chapter are carried out with a flexible computer software package known as DistGEN (Sielken, Inc., 1995). This package allows the exposure equations to be specified in the general computer language called FORTRAN, so they can have practically any form. Furthermore, the user-specified distributions for the components of the exposure equations can be selected from a wide variety of classical statistical distributions (normal, log-normal, etc., with user-specified parameter values) or be sample data (either the sample values themselves, frequency histograms, etc.). Each Monte Carlo simulation described herein is based on 10000 iterations (10 000 evaluations of the exposure equations for individuals). 

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