Modelling the Age-period-cohort Trend Surface

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-106

  Lee, Wen C ^a   Lin, Ruey S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age period cohort models; Epidemiologic methods; Mortality; Prostate cancer; Statistics; Trend surface analysis

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AGE-PERIOD-COHORT MODELS; BIOLOGICAL BASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; IDENTIFIABILITY; INTERPRETABILITY; MORTALITY; PROSTATE CANCERS; TREND SURFACE; TREND-SURFACE ANALYSIS;

UROLOGY;

EID: 0030526606     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710380109     Document Type: Article

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