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Sums of dependent Bernoulli random variables and disease clustering

✍ Scribed by Chang Yu; Daniel Zelterman

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
111 KB
Volume
57
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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✦ Synopsis

We develop new discrete distributions that describe the behavior of a sum of dependent Bernoulli random variables. These distributions are motivated by the manner in which multiple individuals with a lung disease appear to cluster within the same family. General results for these models include recursive relationships for their mass functions and moments.

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