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To help compensate people who get cancers after being accidentally exposed to radiation, the Congress of the U.S.A. requested tables of probability of causation (assigned shares) to be computed. The tables took account of type of cancer, gender, size of dose, age at exposure and at diagnosis, and smoking. For most cancers, the assigned share was based on the age-t-specific cancer incidence rate for dose d, r(t¦d), using the constant relative risk model for assigned share
The intent is to replace the tort law for damages by a workman’s compensation system.
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Mosteller, F. (2006). Compensating for Radiation-Related Cancers by Probability of Causation or Assigned Shares. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hoaglin, D.C. (eds) Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-44956-2_38
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