Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 67-71
doi:10.1155/S1173912697000060
Radioactivity half-lives considered as data
T.P. Hutchinson
School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, N.S.W., Australia
Abstract
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.