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COMPARISON OF APPROACHES TO OBTAIN A SAMPLE OF DWELLINGS FOR RADON SURVEY
I Yarmoshenko1, A Onishchenko1, G Malinovsky1
1IIE UB RAS, Sophy Kovalevskoy St., 20, Ekaterinburg 620990, Russia.
Abstract:
Obtaining of the representative sample of dwellings is a basic requirement to organization of the radon survey. Since random selection is often impossible, quasi-random approaches are used. The aim of the study is to analyze errors in radon exposure assessment that resulted from rejecting the random selection. Both the modeling and experiments were conducted. Three types of errors were observed: shifting of the mean, change of the variance and mixture of the previous two.
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