Re: Radon - county linear model and LNT

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

June 27, 2003



Dear Bernie:



I think that Lubin is saying that when you plot lung cancer rates versus

radon level you are indirectly assuming a linear relationships between the

overall lung cancer rate and all of the co-variates that may affect the

lung cancer rate. Smoking is an obvious co-variate, but there may be others

such as genetic susceptibility, dietary level of certain nutrients, etc.



Otto



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