COMPARING METHODS FOR CALCULATING CONFID
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MARIAN EWELL
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A method is introduced for computing a Bayesian 95 per cent posterior probability region for vaccine efficacy. This method assumes independent vague gamma prior distributions for the incidence rates on each arm of the trial, and a Poisson likelihood for the counts of incident cases of infection. The