Poisson working models for averaged counts

ID: poisson-working-models-for-averaged-counts

If counts events over days, then the daily average has mean and variance . It is not itself a Poisson variable unless . Known observation periods allow count modelling with a log-exposure offset; otherwise Quasi-Poisson regression may be used as a working mean-variance model, with uncertainty qualified by the missing exposure information.

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