Re: European Residential Radon Pooling

[Maury Siskel <maurysis@ev1.net>]

To the best of my flawed (rusted) recollection, the meta-studies that I 

have seen reported pooled the raw data from mutiple more or less related 

studies -- not risk estimated risk levels or significance levels. I'm 

sorry, Bill, but I fail to see the difference. Pooling as it is being 

used in this thread seems to be just a new buzzword. By the same token, 

there have been "good" meta-studies or meta-analyses, and there have 

been a lot that were poorly done. This is why I still believe that great 

caution and detailed review is warranted regarding conclusions from such 

studies. The designs and analyses of such studies have been fraught with 

flaws.

Cheers,

Maury Siskel         maurysis@ev1.net



niton@mchsi.com wrote:



>Barbara,

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>Pooling combines the DATA (not risk estimates) from each study. 

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>"Consider the danger of radon gas.  If there is one environmental problem that is real, it is radon.  ...there is no hysteria over adon....because it's natural...."Rush Limbaugh, 1992 

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