INFERENCES FOR POISSON RATES

• ? is an unknown Poisson rate (Radiation Protection literature generally uses ? rather than ? to represent an unknown Poisson rate)

• Observe X ~ Poisson(?):

P(X=k) = ? ke–?/ k!

[It will be clear in the following that extension to any number of observations is easy.]

• Make inferences about ?.

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