Determining the sample size required for a community radon survey.
Radon measurements in homes and other buildings have been included in various community health surveys often dealing with only a few hundred randomly sampled households. It would be interesting to know whether such a small sample size can adequately represent the radon distribution in a large community. An analysis of radon measurement data obtained from the Winnipeg case-control study with randomly sampled subsets of different sizes has showed that a sample size of one to several hundred can serve the survey purpose well.
Chen
Jing
J
Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada. jing_chen@hc-sc.gc.ca
Tracy
Bliss L
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Zielinski
Jan M
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Moir
Deborah
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D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011886:Radon / Q000032:analysis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018401:Sample Size
D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011886:Radon