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RE: Cancer deficiency clusters

To: "Ruth Sponsler" <jk5554@YAHOO.COM>, "Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>, <hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net>, "jjcohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: RE: Cancer deficiency clusters
From: "Dov Brickner" <brickner@zahav.net.il>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 21:59:11 +0200
Cc: "Gibbs, S Julian" <s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu>, "Jacobus, John \(OD/ORS\)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>, "Radsafe Mail list" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
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>

> This reason is exactly why statistics profs advise

> people doing _research_ to use 2-sided confidence

> limits, and discourage the practice of 1-sided limits

> in most cases.  [1-sided limits have some valid

> applications in non-research fields such as quality

> control and business management].

>



Yes , but this way you cut your chance to find a significant excess cancer

by half.... Of course that's what I expect an honest scientist to do , but

why everybody call me "naive"...?





Dov  (Dubi)Brickner   MD

Beer Sheva    ISRAEL





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> ~Ruth 2

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References:
- Cancer deficiency clusters
  - From: Ruth Sponsler <jk5554@YAHOO.COM>

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