An easy to use method to approximate Poisson confidence limits

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-216

  Bégaud, Bernard ^a,b,c   Martin, Karin ^a,b,c   Abouelfath, Abdelilah ^a,b   Tubert Bitter, Pascale ^d,e   Moore, Nicholas ^a,b,c   Moride, Yola ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSERM U657   (France)

^c BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Confidence intervals; Poisson approximation; Poisson count

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SATISFACTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 17644417491     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-004-6517-4     Document Type: Article

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