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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cancer Prev. 2019 May;28(3):225–233. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000460
tDay is total number of working days during each time period
tPosD is total number of possible working days during each time period derived from first and last day (if first day or last day is missing it is assumed that first day is 9/11/2001 and last day is 6/30/2002)
tshift is the number of work shifts in a day (typically one work shift is 8 hours)
fdate is a day-specific exposure-related factor accounting for severity of environmental and microenvironmental conditions on the date of each exposure event