Fitting additive Poisson models

Hendriek C Boshuizen; Edith Jm Feskens

doi:10.1186/1742-5573-7-4

Fitting additive Poisson models

Epidemiol Perspect Innov. 2010 Jul 20:7:4. doi: 10.1186/1742-5573-7-4.

Authors

Hendriek C Boshuizen¹, Edith Jm Feskens

Affiliation

¹ Department of Statistics and Mathematical Modelling, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands. hendriek.boshuizen@rivm.nl.

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.