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The expected number of cases in the exposed population (for Poisson analyses) was calculated as the incidence rate (per year) determined from the pooled rate in controls (obtained as described above) multiplied by the duration of exposure (in years).
A Poisson distribution was used to predict the expected frequency for similar randomly distributed populations spaced uniformly in the same area.
Gamma parameters were estimated from the combined data using maximum likelihood under a Poisson correction [ 30 ] (4-taxon, α = 1.62; 5-taxon, α = 0.94, Brugia, α = 0.87; Trichinella, α = 0.66).
The pattern of alleles (Table 2) does not satisfy a Poisson distribution, suggesting that the screen has not reached saturation.
These included a test for equality of proportions (equivalent to the chi-square test), modeling the sampling of tags using the Poisson distribution, Fisher's exact test, and a Bayesian model.