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Applying the compound Poisson process model to the reporting of injury-related mortality rates

Injury-related mortality rate estimates are often analyzed under the assumption that case counts follow a Poisson distribution. Certain types of injury incidents occasionally involve multiple fatalities, however, resulting in dependencies between cases that are not reflected in the simple Poisson mo...

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Autor principal: Kegler, Scott R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1828152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17306020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5573-4-1