A test of the hypothesis that time to tumor in humans fits the &quot;one-hit&quot; model

Dorvlo, A.S.; Enslein, K.; Salsburg, D.; Dorvlo, A.S; Enslein, K; Salsburg, D

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A test of the hypothesis that time to tumor in humans fits the "one-hit" model

Dorvlo, A.S.; Enslein, K.; Salsburg, D.

Journal of Environmental Pathology and Toxicology 4(1): 139-143

1980

ISSN/ISBN: 0146-4779

PMID: 7441108

Document Number: 168233

Data from the Connecticut Tumor Registry for 1935-1968 for 14 tumor sites were subjected to formal statistical tests of the hypothesis that the time to tumor has an exponential distribution (and hence is a result of one random "hit"). All of the resulting 270 test statistics rejected the hypothesis.