BIOS601 Resources: 1 Intensity/Rate: Models/ Inference / Planning; 2 Intensities/Rates: Models/ Inference / Planning
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Lecture Notes
Examples of Variations in Counts
"Clusters" and other co-incidences
Tables
Articles, Chapters, Notes - Methodological
- 'De Mensura Sortis' or 'On the Measurement of Chance'
by A. de Moivre (1718,1738,1756, and 1712)
Author(s): A. Hald, Abraham de Moivre and Bruce McClintock.
International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Dec., 1984), pp. 229-262
Published by: International Statistical Institute (ISI)
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Recherches sur la probabilité
des jugements en matière
criminelle at en matière civile: by
S.D. Poisson. 1837.
See, in particular, section (81) beginning on page 205.
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On the error of counting with a haemocytometer: by STUDENT Biometrika 5(3) 1907
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(1910) LXXVI. The probability variations in the distribution of
alpha particles
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine
and Journal of Science, 20:118, 698-707,
DOI: 10.1080/14786441008636955. by
E. Rutherford, H. Geiger & H. Bateman.
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Practical Applications of the Statistics of Repeated Events,
Particularly to Industrial Accidents
Ethel M. Newbold. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 90, No. 3 (1927), pp. 487-547
- Mathematical Distributions used in
Common Tests, RA Fisher, 1935
- Poisson Distribution |
Inferences from Counts Armitage et al.
- Rothman 1986. Ch 10 Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis
- Rothman 1986. Ch 11 Analysis of Crude Data
- Rothman 2002. Chapter 7 Analyzing Simple Epidemiologic Data
- Walker Ch8: Estimation Analysis of Open Cohort Studies
- Exact confidence limits on a Poisson parameter: Notes by FDKLiddell (.gif)
- JH and AL. If Nothing Goes Wrong, Is Everything All Right? Interpreting Zero Numerators
- Randomness at the root of things 2: Poisson sequences [article from Physics Education]
- Simple exact analysis of the standardized mortality ratio
FDK Liddell J Epi Comm. Health 37 85-88, 1984
page 85 | page 86 |
page 87 | page87
- The simplest statistical test: how to check for a difference
between treatments SJ Pocock BMJ 2006
- Stigler, S. The Digital Approximation of the Binomial by the Poisson
The American Statistician, February 2013, Vol. 67, No. 1 pages 57-59.
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Link between Poisson and Gamma/ChiSquare tail areas. Accromath. 2015.
Cancer Screening Trials
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
... X-Ray
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Biometric design of the Mayo Lung Project for early
detection and localization of bronchogenic carcinoma.
Taylor WF, Fontana RS. Cancer. 1972 Nov;30(5):1344-7.
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Some Results of Screening for Early Lung Cancer
W.F. Taylor, R.S. Fontana, M.A. Uhlenhopp, and C.S. Davis. Cancer 47:1114-1120, 1981.
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Lung Cancer Screening: The Mayo Program.
R.S. Fontana; D.R. Sanderson; L.B. Woolner;
W.F. Taylor; W.E. Miller; and J.R. Muhm.
Journal of Occupational Medicine/Volume 28 No. 8/August 1986.
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Lung Cancer Mortality in the Mayo Lung Project:
Impact of Extended Follow-up
P.M. Marcus, E.J. Bergstralh, R.M. Fagerstrom, D.E. Williams,
R. Fontana, W.F. Taylor, P.C. Prorok.
J Natl Cancer Inst 2000;92:1308-16.
Statistical Exercises based on Mayo Lung Project
See Exercises 0.1 part 2 (p.11); 0.12 (p.16); and 0.13 (p.16);
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- Prostate Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer
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