title: Truncated Poisson distribution with optimization techniques in the epidemiology of caries.
abstract: A truncated Poisson distribution provides a closer fit to observed caries in a sample of 10- to 11-year-old children than a previously reported chain binomial distribution. Operations research techniques are used in estimating a parameter.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D011336:Probability