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BMDS 2.0 Beta With New Quantal Model Development External Review Reports and Supporting Documents
EPA is announcing the release of three documents from the external review of BMDS 2.0 with New Quantal Models. The documents include the consolidated comments from the reviewers, the disposition of comments and the draft development and testing report.
Citation:
U.S. EPA. BMDS 2.0 Beta With New Quantal Model Development External Review Reports and Supporting Documents.
Impact/Purpose:
EPA announces the availability of documents associated with the external review of new quantal dose-response models having alternative background parameters (e.g., background additive to dose). These models are made available within the new graphical user interface for BMDS, BMDS Version 2.0 (beta test version)
Description:
With the availability of BMDS 2.0 on the BMDS web site, EPA is providing (a) results of the external review (charge to reviewers and reviewer comments), (b) EPA responses to the review comments, and (c) a report describing development and testing of the models in BMDS 2.0 with new background parameters.
URLs/Downloads:
BMDS WEB SITECONSOLIDATED COMMENTS FROM THE EXTERNAL REVIEW OF THE BMDS FINAL REPORT (PDF, 24 pp, 234 KB, about PDF)
DISPOSITION OF COMMENTS BY EXTERNAL REVIEWERS FOR NEW DOSE-RESPONSE MODELS (PDF, 15 pp, 186 KB, about PDF)
DRAFT DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING REPORT FOR SOFTWARE MODULES TO INCORPORATE BACKGROUND DOSE/RESPONSE IN QUANTAL MODELS WITHIN BENCHMARK DOSE MODELING SOFTWARE (BMDS) (PDF, 119 pp, 1069 KB, about PDF)