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Testicular Cancer in Fire Fighters

Keywords: Poisson distribution, P-value

Description

A recent Australian study of several thousand fire fighters found 8 cases of testicular cancer in the years 1990-1996 compared with the national average which would predict 3 cases for this population over this period. Fire fighters were not found to suffer from any other types of cancer more often than the population at large.

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Analysis

> 1-ppois(7,3)
[1] 0.0119045