Radioactivity half-lives considered as data

DOI10.1155/S1173912697000060MaRDI QIDQ1380526zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. P. Hutchinson

Publication date 4 March 1998

Published in Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/119711

zbMATH Keywords

half-lifelog-normal distributionradioactivitytransformation of data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.) (00A06) Survival analysis and censored data (62N99) Applications of statistics (62P99)

Review text

Summary: Half-lives of radioactive nuclides range over more than 20 orders of magnitude. It is striking that, nevertheless, statistical laws may be discovered in these numbers: a log-normal distribution provides a good description.

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