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... Does reliance on assumptions producing upper-bound risk estimates protect health? The question is analytically tractable.
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... that the disparity in social costs between false negatives and false positives is great, (2) that risk-management decisions are
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Key Terms

  • conservative assumptions
  • risk estimates
  • false positives
  • conservative risk
  • false negatives

  • social costs
  • uncertain risks
  • risk estimate


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