collective effective dose definition
collective effective dose means the total radiation exposure of a group of people calculated by reference to the sum of their individual effective doses;
collective effective dose means the total radiation dose which is obtained in a manner as described in the Fourth Schedule;
collective effective dose means the total effective dose incurred by a population, being the sum of all the individual effective doses to members of the population. Mathematically, the total effective dose to a population, S, is calculated as: