Author(s)

Komla Elom Adedje, Diakarya Barro^*

Université Thomas Sankara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

In this paper we estimate the incubation period of a possible pathology following exposure to dioxins during a poor diet. The tools developed for this purpose include the probabilistic extremal model and the stochastic behavior of the distribution tails of the contamination. We propose a cumulative distribution function for a random variable that follows both a Gaussian distribution and a GPD. A global optimization method is also explored for the efficient estimation of parameters of GPD.

Extreme Values, Tail, Dioxin, Dietary Risk, Incubation Period

Adedje, K. and Barro, D. (2022) Extreme Values Approach in Food Risk Modeling. Open Journal of Statistics, 12, 691-710. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2022.125041.