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Let be singleton deliveries among treatment cycles. Under a common-probability binomial distribution model, independently across years. The pooled maximum-likelihood estimator is
The Pearson chi-squared test of homogeneity compares singleton and non-singleton counts across all fourteen years, using
All expected cells are large. One probability has been estimated, so the reference chi-squared distribution has 13 degrees of freedom. Numerically,
The constant singleton-per-cycle probability is decisively rejected under the independent-binomial model. The observed proportion rises from to . Dependence between repeated treatments or patient heterogeneity can invalidate literal binomial precision, but they should be addressed by an explicit variance model rather than ignored.

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