An efficient procedure for computing exa
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Harland Austin
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Article
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1983
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Elsevier Science
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English
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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 exampl