Two-group Poisson ratio conditional likelihood

ID: two-group-poisson-ratio-conditional-likelihood

For independent aggregate Poisson distributions with means and , conditioning on the total eliminates . Independent Poisson conditioning gives the displayed binomial distribution. Its conditional likelihood is proportional to , also the profile likelihood after maximizing over the unrestricted positive baseline rate. Unequal exposures replace the binomial success probability by .

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