A semi-parametric estimate of extra-poisson variation for vital rates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2389-2401

  Fay, Michael P ^a   Feuer, Eric J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARAMETER; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0030782602     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971115)16:21<2389::AID-SIM683>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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