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PLOS ONE
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267610
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- Special Grant for the Development of Virtual Teaching and Learning (VTL) [6430120]
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong SAR
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In this study, an open-source GUI computer program called RadStat was developed for statistical analysis of counts measured by a GM counter. RadStat provides a quick and convenient way to perform data analysis and visualization, making it a useful tool for research and teaching in nuclear radiation physics.
The interaction of ionizing radiation with matter is a stochastic process and statistical analysis of such a process would be a crucial step in understanding radioactivity. Geiger-Muller (GM) counter is a widely used radiation detector used in nuclear radiation surveying, which produces counts upon exposure to a radioactive source. There are a variety of multi-purpose software that can be used to perform statistical analysis of measured counts from a GM counter. However, statistical analysis is a lengthy, error prone and time-consuming process, which gets more tedious when the number of measurements increases. In the present work, we have developed an open-source and easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) computer program named RadStat for statistical analysis of counts measured by a GM counter. RadStat has its own scripting syntaxes and bundled with gnuplot for quick visualization of output results. We believe the present open-source GUI program would be a useful tool for research and teaching of nuclear radiation physics.
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