To use or not to use? Backward equations in stochastic carcinogenesis models

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 384-388

  Zheng, Qi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward equation; Carcinogenesis model; Characteristic curve; Forward equation; Hazard function; Survival function

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; PATHOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BACKWARD EQUATION; CARCINOGENESIS MODELS; CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; FORWARD EQUATIONS; HAZARD FUNCTION; KOLMOGOROV; MODELING PARAMETERS; MULTISTAGE CARCINOGENESIS; STOCHASTICS; SURVIVAL FUNCTION;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HAZARD; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031898366     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2534024     Document Type: Article

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