Table 2 |
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Characteristic statistics of the posterior lung cancer SMR distribution, i.e., the distribution of the bias adjusted SMR. |
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Analysis |
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CAREX |
Expert |
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smoking cohort |
smoking case-control |
smoking cohort |
smoking case-control |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
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SMR, posterior |
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median |
1.00 |
1.01 |
1.32 |
1.32 |
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arithmetic mean |
1.21 |
1.22 |
1.33 |
1.34 |
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standard deviation |
0.82 |
0.83 |
0.34 |
0.35 |
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2.5%-fractile |
0.24 |
0.25 |
0.70 |
0.70 |
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97.5%-fractile |
3.31 |
3.37 |
2.04 |
2.07 |
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Findings are reported according to the four analyses described in Table 1. The number of significant digits displayed is for comparison purposes only. The data set is not of sufficient size to support this accuracy. Results from MCMC random walks (Metropolis sampler) of length 1,000,000. |
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Morfeld and McCunney Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:23 doi:10.1186/1745-6673-5-23 |
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