Characterization of HIV incubation distributions and some comparative studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-220

  Tan, Wai Yuan ^a   Lee, Sho Rong ^b   Tang, Si Chin ^c  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FORECASTING; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030021135     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960130)15:2<197::AID-SIM147>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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