Correction to: Testing the equality of two Poisson means using the rate ratio (Statistics in Medicine, (2005), 24, 6, (955-965), 10.1002/sim.1949);Testing the equality of two Poisson means using the rate ratio

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 955-965

  Ng, Hon Keung Tony ^a   Tang, Man Lai ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Constrained maximum likelihood estimation; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 15544384453     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.9263     Document Type: Erratum

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