Publication Date:
1980-09-12
Description:
Disagreements about the somatic risks from low doses of ionizing radiation stem from two difficulties fundamental to the logic of inference from observational data. First, precise direct estimation of small risks requires impracticably large samples. Second, precise estimates of low-dose risks based largely on high-dose data, for which the sample size requirements are more easily satisfied, must depend heavily on assumptions about the shape of the dose-response curve, even when only a few of the parameters of the theoretical form of the curve are unknown.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Land, C E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Sep 12;209(4462):1197-203.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7403879" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology/etiology
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Cell Survival/radiation effects
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Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
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Female
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Humans
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Leukemia, Radiation-Induced/etiology
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Mammography/adverse effects
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Models, Theoretical
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Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/*etiology
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*Radiation, Ionizing
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Radioactive Fallout
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Risk
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Statistics as Topic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
