[ RadSafe ] Differences in Background radiation and disease incidence

[Eric D]

Has anyone addressed the problem of low dose effects by estimating how large
the radiation risk coefficient would need to be to have statistically
significant differences in disease rates between areas of differing
backgrounds?

I am not an epidemiologist nor well versed enough in statistics to do this
but a graph of the minimum risk coefficient required to show a difference
versus increase in background level would be interesting and shed light on
the debate.

Eric D. Daxon, PhD, CHP