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An efficient procedure for computing exact confidence limits for a standardized mortality ratio

✍ Scribed by Harland Austin

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1983
Tongue: English
Weight: 214 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-4809
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4809(83)90005-8

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✦ Synopsis

An efficient computing procedure is described for obtaining exact confidence limits for the mean of a Poisson distribution. It is shown how this procedure can be used to obtain the exact confidence limits for a standardized mortality ratio, a parameter of great interest to epidemiologists. An example is presented illustrating the technique.

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