Re: Urban/rural effects

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 FIELDRW@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/9/00 9:09:14 AM Central Standard Time, blc+@pitt.edu 
> writes:
> 
> << > Field Response:  My question regarded why you felt you found such a 
> strong 
>  > inverse association between mean county radon concentrations and your 
>  > estimated county smoking rates.  I do not think this can be explained 
> merely 
>  > by an urban/rural phenomenon. 
>  
> Dr. Cohen response  --I think it can be explained by the urban-rural effect, 
> but the
>  explanation is irrelevant to the issue under discussion, which is finding
>  an explanation for the large discrepancy between predictions of LNT and
>  our data. >>
> 
> Field response: It is not irrelevant.  It addresses the quality of your data. 
>  If it is due to urban/rural factors, you should be able to explain the 
> inverse association between mean county smoking rates and mean county radon 
> concentrations in definitive analytical terms.  

	--I don't follow your logic here. I don't see what this has to do
with my study, or with any claim I have ever made about my procedures. I
deal with data, not with relations between them except for the relation
between lung cancer rates and radon levels.

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