Estimating a delay distribution from incomplete data, with application to reporting lags for AIDS cases

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2339-2347

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Cui, Ji Sheng ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030669997     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971030)16:20<2339::AID-SIM648>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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