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An inferential procedure for the Poisson intervention parameter.

R Shanmugam
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To describe a health chance mechanism whose incidence rate is altered in the middle of a data collection period due to preventive treatments taken by health service agencies, a model called Intervened Poisson Distribution (cf. Shanmugam, 1985, Biometrics 41, 1025-1029) was introduced. In this article, we derive a statistic to test the hypothesis concerning the effectiveness of such preventive treatments, and compare its power with another suggested test (cf. Streit, 1987, Biometrics 43, 999-1000).

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R Shanmugam. 1992. An inferential procedure for the Poisson intervention parameter.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1637978/

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