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confidence interval with small supopulations

I am currently using a large dataset (n=1.850) composed of smaller samples of several countries. I am currently aiming to describe the sample and infer to the population using simple frequencies ...
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Inverse Incidence Rate Ratio

I wondered if it is possible to calculate the inverse of an IRR like we can for odds ratio (inverse = 1/x). For example: IRR = 1.40, 95% CI = 1.18 -1.65 Inverse IRR: = 1/1.40 = 0.71 Thank you ...
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Simulation of woman's age of getting breast cancer (cumulative incidence rate)

I am writing a programme to simulate the age at which women will get breast cancer. I have data on the cumulative incidence rate for the whole population. What I am doing right now is using Monte ...
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Comparing Incidence Rate Ratios

I am trying to compare incidence rate ratios (IRR). This is what I have: Group A (exposed vs. unexposed) IRR and Group B (exposed vs. unexposed) IRR So how would I correctly test for the ...
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Poisson rate regression: Deriving alpha and beta from likelihood theory

A study of patient’s survival was classified by sex (female or male) with follow up of patients until the patient died or the study ended. We have the following information- y1- Number of deaths ...
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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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Negative binomial — IRR interpretation for predictors

I have a zero-inflated negative binomial model. I have used incidence rate ratios and I'm trying to interpret the coefficients in relation to my predictors. Most of my predictors are continuous ...
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Alternative name for “incidence rate ratio”

I'm using a negative binomial GLM to predict individual level scores on a psychometric test that ranges from 0-27 and presenting the coefficient "incidence rate ratios". It seems a little strange to ...