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Keratitis
Research findings from Wright State University update understanding of keratitis
November 25th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "The Poisson distribution can be Used to model discrete events that occur infrequently in time. and it was applied retrospectively. to recently reported clusters of Fusarium keratitis. This distribution Was utilized with data reported from 6 geographically diverse ophthalmic centers during the worldwide Fusarium keratitis epidemic of 2004-2006." "The expected numbers of cases. determined front published historical data, were compared with the observed and probabilities were Calculated. The Poisson probabilities were also Used to determine the numbers of cases in each cluster required to reach statistical significance. The...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-11-25)
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