Fantastic responses; thanks everybody.
Keep them coming. please.
Some very consistent curves out there. Let's refine the question a bit:
* At what workload does the unit cost flatten off?
* Does it actually go flat or just nearly flat?
* How do a few small laboratories achieve unit costs as low as the very large laboratories? (This effect seems to occur in many of the datasets.)
Jonathan
On 31 Oct 2011, at 15:19, Jonathan Kay wrote:
> It's become a dogma in our subject that laboratories with higher workload have lower unit costs. I'm speaking in a debate on "pathology" "networks" and thought it would be a good idea to summarise the evidence for this.
>
> What's the best piece of evidence you have for this? Would you be prepared to tell me and/or the mailgroup what it is?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan
>
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