Re: PubMed Nair99 Radiat Res - Kerala population

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 12:37 PM 12/27/1999 -0600, Jim Muckerheide wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Yet another substantial study scientifically contradicts the LNT. (Can
>do more work for biology and precision, but no effects in such
>population-size/dose-differences refutes the LNT premise, much less
>"supralinearity" :-)
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December 27, 1999
Davis, CA

When there is no statistically significant increase in cancer with increase
in dose, the problem may be weak statistical power rather than the
invalidity of LNT. I cannot tell from this abstract whether any LNT model
was actually tested  or whether the data are robust enough to allow such a
test.

The point here is that the absence of a statistically significant effect
does not invalidate LNT unless there is a statistically significant
difference between the LNT predictions and the observations.

Otto

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