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statistics question (OT)

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Tuesday, 8 June 2010, at 7:41 a.m.

In Response To: statistics question (OT) (Chuck Bower)

http://www.epa.gov/radon/pdfs/402-r-03-003.pdf ? It's a long report from 2003.

Quickly browsed this -- I gather they took actual lung cancer deaths, made a whole lot of assumptions about the extent of exposure to radon and the effects of [long-term] exposure at various levels to men and women estimated to be ever, never and former smokers, and applied a formula chosen to between two previously developed models to estimate the percentage of lung cancer deaths that were due to radon exposure (about 14%, in (I think) 1995).

So .. sample size? doesn't seem to apply. But I surely may have misunderstood the intricate details of their methodology.

Expalin it to me in English. The report was in a foreign language ;-

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