Because BMDS is the Agency's tool for estimating risk assessments, the validity and reliability of its statistical models are of paramount importance. This page provides links to peer reviews and expert summaries of the BMDS applications and its models as they were developed and eventually released.

• 2000 Peer Review Workshop on the Draft Benchmark Dose Technical Guidance
• 2000 External Review of BMDS Version 1.1b and EPA Responses
• 2007 External Review of the Exponential Model
• 2007 External Review of Dichotomous (Quantal) Models
• 2007 External Review of the Multistage Weibull Time-to-Tumor Model
• 2008 External Review of the Concentration x Time (ten Berge) Model
• 2011 External Review of the MS_Combo Model
• 2018 External Review of Bayesian Models and Model Averaging Software