title: The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities: comment.
abstract: The recent claim made in this journal that nuclear bomb tests and the Chernobyl disaster caused distortions in the secondary sex ratio is shown to be a likely artifact of data mining, misused statistics, and misreading of the evidence. In particular, the concept of statistical "significance" and its limitations do not seem to be fully understood, and important confounding factors have not been accounted for.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany. walterk@statistik.tu-dortmund.de
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Krämer
mesh_terms: D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants; D054043:Nuclear Weapons; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012744:Sex Ratio
chemical_list: D011847:Radioactive Fallout
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