Evaluation of birth Cohort patterns in population disease rates

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-90

  Tarone, Robert E ^a   Chu, Kenneth C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cohort effect; Models, statistical; Mortality; Poisson distribution; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT EFFECT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

AGE-PERIOD-COHORT ANALYSIS; BREAST CANCER; COHORT EFFECT; DISEASE TREND; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

JAPAN; USA;

EID: 0029667344     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008661     Document Type: Review

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