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RESEARCH ARTICLE

What does it mean when the risk assessment says 4.73 x 10-5?

Andrew Langley

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 14(8) 166 - 167
Published: 01 August 2003

Abstract

A number is a number is a number … and yet exactitude should not be confused with accuracy. This article describes some of the philosophical underpinnings of the methods of health risk assessment.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB03047

© NSW Department of Health 2003

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