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

[Dimiter Popoff]

I know this is done _usually_. The text I read (not necessarily the
original, I don't remember now) was ambiguous on that, though.
I guess neither of us would be too surprised if it turns out the
meaning in the context was not the usual one - but I don't really know
if this was so.

Dimiter


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Dimiter Popoff               Transgalactic Instruments

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> 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