[ RadSafe ] Re: Nuclear Power Plant Effluents / EMP, "Nuclear War Survival Skills "

[John Jacobus]

Usually the incident and death rates are normalized to
some base value, e.g., x cancers per 1,000
individuals. So, if the population increases, the
incident rates does not. 
--- Dimiter Popoff <didi at tgi-sci.com> wrote:
> 
> > ... An increase of 30% may not even be a
> statistical change, but you
> > need to know more about the data, e.g., how good
> was the sampling, 
> > was there a biasing factor, etc.
> 
> One biasing factor which comes to mind could be
> population increase 
> by a factor of about 1.3 


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"Baltimore is actually a very safe city if you are not involved in the drug trade."
DR. PETER BEILENSON, the city's health commissioner.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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