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Appendix C: Methodology for Analysis of Child Mortality
Pages 220-221

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... Poisson regression is essentially a methodology for the multivariate analysis of counts of occurrences, in this case, of child deaths. The method assumes some underlying risk or hazard of the event occurring in some category of duration of exposure, in this case an age group of children.
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... - 1n(Eia) = ha + 1; Xi The logarithm of the exposure term Eia is commonly referred to as the "offset," which standardizes cell counts for varying exposure times.
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