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Fitting additive Poisson models

Hendriek C Boshuizen1* and Edith JM Feskens2

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Statistics and Mathematical Modelling, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands

2 Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, PO box 8129, 6700EV, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2010, 7:4 doi:10.1186/1742-5573-7-4

Published: 20 July 2010

Abstract

This paper describes how to fit an additive Poisson model using standard software. It is illustrated with SAS code, but can be similarly used for other software packages.