Re[3]:Sadistics

[Rodney Bauman <rodney_bauman@wssrap-host.wssrap.com>]

I acknowledge that situations exist where values less than the critical level
are of importance, such as tracking environmental monitoring results and your
scenario described below.  However, such values should be disregarded when
tracking DAC-hrs.

I shouldn't have generically used the term "garbage."

Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT
rodney_bauman@wssrap-host.wssrap.com

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Subject:    Re[2]:Sadistics 
Author: <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date:       11/9/99 3:09 PM


Correct me if I am wrong, but results below the critical level are not
necessarily "garbage" and certainly not background.  Results below the
critical are merely indistinguishable from a background distribution.  There
are times I use values below the critical level, such as for bioassay,
where a known intake occurred and there is other data above the critical
value, but I need to fit a curve to lower values as well.



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