Power and sample size requirements for tests of differences between two Poisson rates

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 227-230

  Thode Jr , Henry C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Normal approximation; Uniformly most powerful unbiased tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347137498     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00078     Document Type: Article

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