Estimating asymptomatic duration in cancer: The aids connection

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 627-644

  Etzioni, Ruth ^a   Shen, Yu ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030933664     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970330)16:6<627::AID-SIM438>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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