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Appendix B: Environmental Protection Agency's Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Final Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard
Pages 211-212

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... The table is presented here to illustrate that EPA had included the assumption of no causal association between estimated reductions in the incidence of premature mortality and reductions in ozone exposure. The committee recommends that future regulatory impact analyses (RIAs)
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... c A credible interval is a posterior probability interval used in Bayesian statistics, which is similar to a confidence interval used in frequentist statistics. d All estimates rounded to two significant figures.
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