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attenuation factor |
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The ratio of the incident radiation dose or dose rate to the radiation dose or dose rate transmitted through a shielding material. This is the reciprocal of the transmission factor. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Measurement error in epidemiologic studies is known to bias the effect size estimates, and the resulting attenuation factor is usually computed as the ratio of the true variance to the overall variance (including measurement error). where c is an attenuation factor between 0 and 1 given by c = var([x. |
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