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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVE:
is to sum the arithmetic means,

are summing distributions reliably,

and

also, no matter what the distribution is, that you can sum the variances;

equal

jis

sum

the variance of the

that

to the sum of the

individual

Once we have done that, we then have an arithmetic mean and an

variances.

arithmetic standard deviation.

If we know that we can, indeed, calculate

back to a geometric mean and a geometric standard deviation to provide a
distribution of values.
The next viewgraph
these parameters.

(LRA-35)

shows

the relationships between all

of

This is how we calculate

We've already seen that one.

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an arithmetic standard deviation where a variance is shown here, if we know

ll

the geometric standard deviation and also the geometric mean.

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two

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deviation,

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standard deviation.

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Dunning and Schwarz (published) in Health Physics.

show how,

Well,

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if we know

can

how we

the

an

arithmetic mean,

calculate

the

or

standard

arithmetic

an

mean

geometric

And these

and

geometric

the

These results, by the way, are taken from a paper by

next

four

viewgraphs

(LRA-36,

-37,

-38,

show

-39)

was an

_

(LRA-36)

the

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results of doing all of these calculations.

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individual who had melanoma.

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dose on the skin directly from the Los Alamos calculations.

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the probability distribution.

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percent confident that his dose was equal to or less than 590 rads, and so

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forth.

For his case we are looking now at the beta

The most likely dose is 310 rads.

The next viewgraph (LRA-37),

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This indicates

We are 90

» he had

the doses for —

We have assumed that the organ of interest is the whole

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Hodgkin's-disease.

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body.

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and

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in utero exposure from external dose.

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a fairly typical result that the dose from ingestion is much smaller, say,

This indicates now that -- in his case we have an in-utero exposure,

this

is

not the one that Yook

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is

largely

This comes from Los Alamos.

We see

Ng calculated,

but this

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