Solution

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A one-unit increase in testosterone concentration, here , multiplies the expected offspring count by under the Poisson regression with a log link. Thus the exact percentage change in the conditional mean is . The regression coefficient itself is the change in the logarithm of the expected count, not an additive change in offspring number.

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