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Re: Cohen data suspect at best
Sure, email me in a month.
>From: Kai Kaletsch <info@eic.nu>
>To: Rad health <healthrad@hotmail.com>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>Subject: Re: Cohen data suspect at best
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:46:53 -0600
>
>Looking forward to it. Can you give which journal it will be published in
>and when?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rad health" <healthrad@hotmail.com>
>
> > A letter like this is already in press.
> >
> > >From: Kai Kaletsch <info@eic.nu>
> > >Don,
> > >
> > >Perhaps you can give a numerical example of how census inaccuracies can
> > >result in an inverse radon - lung cancer relationship WITHOUT assuming
>any
> > >relationship between the amount of misclassification and average county
> > >radon levels?
> > >
> > >This doesn't have to be realistic or complicated. You can use the
>wildest
> > >examples your imagination can come up with. But you cannot assume any
> > >relationship between the amount of misclassification and average county
> > >radon levels.
> > >
> > >Kai
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Rad health" <healthrad@hotmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Kai, this is what would be called a systematic bias within the
>entire
> > >data
> > > > structure. As Morgenstern has previously pointed out, these group
>level
> > > > biases are unbounded an can result in inverse associations.
> > >
> >
> >
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