Calculating the probability of rare events : why settle for an approximation ?

Author(s)
Luft, H.S. & Brown, B.W.
Year
Abstract

Health services researchers often need to compute the probability of observing a certain number of events when only a few such events are expected. The objective of this article is to show that the standard approaches (poisson, binomial, and normal approximations) are inappropriate in such instances, and to suggest an alternative.

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940534 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Health Services Research, Vol. 28 (1993), No. 4 (October), p. 419-439, 6 ref.

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