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7.5.2 The bacterial count data<br />

In the study <strong>of</strong> relative effectiveness <strong>of</strong> three different air samplers 1, 2, and 3 to detect<br />

pathogenic bacteria in ‘sterile’ rooms, a microbiologist obtained triplets <strong>of</strong> bacterial<br />

colony counts X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 from samplers 1, 2, and 3 in each <strong>of</strong> 50 different sterile<br />

locations. Since the bacterial infestation can vary from location to location, extra-<br />

Poisson variations can be expected in the counts from any particular sampler, with<br />

correlation between the three counts from a particular location. Aitchison and Ho (1989)<br />

considered P Λ<br />

3 ( µ, Σ)<br />

model seems a reasonable framework <strong>for</strong> these data. They<br />

observed maximum loglikelihood –397.8 <strong>for</strong> P Λ<br />

3 ( µ, Σ)<br />

model.<br />

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