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... ~. Their stated aim has been to provide agencies and individuals with a means of computing estimates of cancer risk after exposure to radiation that reflect the circumstances of an individual compensation claim better than was possible with the original tables and of ascertaining the statistical uncertainty inherent in a particular estimate of radiation-related assigned shares.
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... In such circumstances, subjective confidence intervals can be very wide and could lead to a situation in which compensation is awarded under dubious conditions of causation while a scientifically stronger case with a narrow confidence interval fails. The validity of this approach should be carefully considered.


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