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As mentioned in previous chapters, radioactive decay is a random process, and therefore one can expect fluctuations in the measurement of radioactivity. The detailed discussion of the statistical treatment of radioactive measurements is beyond the scope of this book. Only the salient points of statistics related to radiation counting are given here.
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Saha, G.B. (2006). Statistics of Radiation Counting. In: Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36281-6_4
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