Sentence examples for binomial assumption for the from inspiring English sources
We calculated 95% CIs for standardized prevalence rates using a normal approximation and Breslow-Day standard errors, after being modified to use a binomial assumption for the variance of the crude stratum-specific rates (9).
The standard errors and the confidence intervals are estimated, by default, under a binomial assumption for each haplotype frequency estimate.
The animal-level variation was modelled under the binomial assumption, with the potential for overdispersion accounted for by fitting an extra-binomial parameter.
The XmR chart makes no such assumption and instead uses the data themselves to provide empirical limits through calculation of an average moving range; whilst, for example, the p- and np-charts assume the variation to be a function of the location and plot theoretical limits that will not hold if the binomial assumption is violated.
The underlying assumption for the generalized linear model is a negative binomial distribution [ 13], while the assumption for the ANOVA is a normal distribution.
These models, based on normal or binomial assumptions, were constructed by using the package MLwiN (21 ).
In the rest of this article we describe the statistical assumptions for the beta-binomial model, the process of estimating the probability of interest, methods to test for over-dispersion, and an example of its application.
Finally, we replicated our models assuming an over-dispersed Poisson distribution (known as a negative binomial distribution) for the number of bloodstream infections to assess the sensitivity of our results to the Poisson assumption.
If the assumption for Poisson regression was not met, the negative binomial regression procedure was applied.
The binomial P-values for the observed differences are infinitesimal.
