An analysis of eight 95 per cent confidence intervals for a ratio of Poisson parameters when events are rare

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 4030-4037

  Barker, Lawrence ^a   Cadwell, Betsy L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Poisson; Small sample

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ODDS RATIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 50849109175     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3234     Document Type: Article

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