BACKGROUND Reporting of absolute risk difference (RD) is recommended for clinical and epidemiological prospective studies. In analyses of multicenter studies, adjustment for center is necessary when randomization is stratified by center or when there is large variation in patients outcomes across centers. While regression methods are used to estimate RD adjusted for baseline predictors and clus...

BACKGROUND The automated monitoring of routinely collected disease surveillance data has the potential to ensure that important changes in disease incidence are promptly recognised. However, few studies have established whether the signals produced by automated monitoring methods correspond with events considered by epidemiologists to be of public health importance. This study investigates the ...

Log-linear-binomial distribution was introduced for describing the behavior of the sum of dependent Bernoulli random variables. The distribution is a generalization of binomial distribution that allows construction of a broad class of distributions. In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the two parameters of log-linearbinomial distribution by moment and maximum likelihood methods...

Numerous writers appear to have been fascinated by the many interesting summation identitites involving the Fibonacci and related Lucas numbers. Various types of formulas are discussed and various methods are used. Some involve binomial coefficients [2 ] , [4 ] . Generating function methods are used in [2] and [5] and higher powers appear in [6] . Combinations of these or other approaches appea...