Re: absence of proof -Reply

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Mike McNaughton wrote:
> 
> Caution: the radium-dial painter data are consistent with the linear model.
> The data look inconsistent because they are drawn on a logarithmic graph.
> On a this graph, the linear model transforms to an exponential ,and
> it is possible to draw a reasonable "exponential" fit through these data.


    -- The data on radium dial painters are plotted on a linear scale
with error bars shown in Fig. 6 of my paper in TECHNOLOGY 6:43-61;!999. It
takes quite a stretch to fit it to linear-no threshold.

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu



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