SpatialEpi (version 1.2.3)

poissonLogLkhd: Compute Poisson Likelihoods

Description

Compute poisson likelihood ratio test statistic for Kulldorff method

Usage

poissonLogLkhd(cz, nz, N, C)

Arguments

cz

count inside zone

nz

expected count inside zone

N

total expected count in region

C

total number of cases in region

Value

Poisson likelihood ratio test statistic

References

Kulldorff M. and Nagarwalla N. (1995) Spatial disease clusters: Detection and Inference.Statistics in Medicine, 14, 799--810.

See Also

binomialLogLkhd, kulldorff