A simple non-linear model in incidence prediction

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2297-2309

  Dyba, Tadeusz ^a,b   Hakulinen, Timo ^a   Päivärinta, Lassi ^c  

^a FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INCIDENCE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030703671     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971030)16:20<2297::AID-SIM668>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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