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Title

Lognormal Distributions for Total Water Intake and Tap Water Intake by Pregnant and Lactating Women in the United States
Author

D. E. Burmaster
Journal / Anthology

Risk Analysis
Year: 1998
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
Page range: 215-220
Description

Using probability plots and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), we fit LogNormal distributions to data compiled by Ershow et al. (1991) for daily intake of total water and tap water by three groups of women (controls, pregnant, and lactating; all between 15-49 years of age) in the United States. We also develop bivariate LogNormal distributions for the joint distribution of water ingestion and body weight for these three groups. Overall, we recommend the marginal distributions for water intaskes as fit by MLE for use in deterministic and probabilistic human health risk assessments.
Subjects

*Mathematics > Probability and Statistics
*Science > Biology