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Conditional fixed effects Poisson *with population exposure*
Reading a paper, the authors use a "Conditional fixed effects Poisson with population exposure." I wasn't sure what "population exposure" meant, so I looked it up. It seems like the term comes from ...
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Estimator for an incidence rate
While going through a statistics course for medicine students, I ran accross a problem related to incidence rates. The context of the problem is a chapter about the Poisson distribution. In the ...
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Comparing incidence rates
I want to compare to incidence rate's between two groups (one without a disease and one with).
I was planning to calculate the incidence rate ratio (IRR), i.e. incidence rate group B/ incidence rate ...
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Using mle2() for age-period-cohort models
I've followed guidelines for comparing models in Chapter 6 of Bolker's Ecological Models and Data in R, applying code used in this section to cancer count data. The models include parameters for age ...
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Poisson regression to estimate relative risk for binary outcomes
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Why is it more common for logistic regression (with odds ratios) to be used in cohort studies with binary outcomes, as opposed to poisson regression (with relative risks)?
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Time series for count data, with counts < 20
I recently started working for a tuberculosis clinic. We meet periodically to discuss the number of TB cases we're currently treating, the number of tests administered, etc. I'd like to start ...
