[R] Help, Statistics Question. Testing for equality of frequncies of an event
David Winsemius
dwinsemius at comcast.net
Fri Feb 15 16:30:59 CET 2008
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orld.com:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a basic statistics question you might be able to help.
>
> I have some data collected within a single population (say of
> chronic illness) over a period of time (number under observation is
> constant, say 100 subjects).
>
> The question is how could I test whether the frequency of an event
> (say hospital admission) over one period is no different to other.
>
> My data looks like this
>
> Week No of Events (hospital admissions)
> 1 23
> 2 26
> 3 46
> 4 23
> 5 45
> 6 58
> 7 34
>
> The hypothesis : The frequency of events (hospital admissions)
> during the period covering weeks 3 and 4 is not different to any
> other weeks.
?glm
With family = poisson
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David Winsemius
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