Ecologic bias revisited, a rejoinder to Cohen's response to 'residential 222Rn exposure and lung cancer: Testing the linear no-threshold theory with ecologic data'

Health Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-33

  Field, R William ^a   Smith, Brian J ^b   Lynch, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON 222;

CANCER RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; HOME; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; THEORY;

EID: 0031799751     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199807000-00006     Document Type: Review

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