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Review Of: Ike Jeanes, Forecast And Solution - A Trilogy For Everyone Grappling With The Nuclear (Pocahontas Press 1996), Drew Schaefer
Review Of: Ike Jeanes, Forecast And Solution - A Trilogy For Everyone Grappling With The Nuclear (Pocahontas Press 1996), Drew Schaefer
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of the book: Ike Jeanes, Forecast and Solution - A Trilogy for Everyone Grappling with the Nuclear (Pocahontas Press 1996). Addenda, appendix, figures, front matter, notes, references, tables. ISBN 0-936015-62-4 [800 pp. Cloth $32.00; paper $25.00. P.O. Drawer F, Blacksburg VA 24063-1020.]
Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly
Sources Of Epidemiological Equivocacy, Timothy Sly
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Mr. Sly discusses five sources of uncertainty and ambiguity in health and medical research that can interfere with decision making.
Curing A Summing Error That Occurs Automatically When Fitting A Function To Binomial Or Poisson Distributed Data, Edwin S. Braithwaite, Wilfred J. Braithwaite
Curing A Summing Error That Occurs Automatically When Fitting A Function To Binomial Or Poisson Distributed Data, Edwin S. Braithwaite, Wilfred J. Braithwaite
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
Without special precautions a sum-rule error occurs automatically when a chi-squared procedure is used to fit a funtion to binomial or Poisson distributed histogram data if the function has at least one linear parameter. Since the square of the variance per channel is equal to the mean population, errors are usually approximated using (G2~=yi>0)}; this choice for approximating the variance gives a per-channel error weighting of 1/yi that automatically results in a sum-rule error. This sum-rule error consistently and systematically underestimates the total sum of the data points by an amount equal to the value of %*, resulting in …