Journal:
:journal of biostatistics and epidemiology
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majid sadeghifar department of statistics, school of basic sciences, bu-ali sina university, hamadan, iran.
maryam seyed-tabib department of biostatistics & epidemiology, school of public health, hamadan university of medical sciences, hamadan, iran.
saiedeh haji-maghsoudi department of biostatistics & epidemiology, school of public health, hamadan university of medical sciences, hamadan, iran.
kourosh noemani department of non-communicable disease, school of health, ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran.
fariba aalipur-byrgany department of non-communicable disease, school of health, ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran.
background & aim: congenital hypothyroidism (ch) is one of the most common endocrine diseases and is a major cause of preventable mental retardation. early diagnosis of ch can help prevent future diseases. although time series techniques are often utilized to forecast future status, they are inadequate to deal with count data with overdispersion. the aim of this study was to apply poisson hidde...
