Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 46 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Let and be the aggregate counts in the control and treated groups. Assuming independent physicians, their Poisson distributions have means and . Condition on . By independent Poisson conditioning,The PDF's full table gives , and . Thus the Two-group Poisson ratio conditional likelihood isConditioning the individual observations instead gives a multinomial distribution with cell probabilities in the first group and in the second; its parameter-dependent likelihood is the same. No factor involves . The conditional estimates are and .