Age-period-cohort analysis of chronic disease rates I: Modelling approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1305-1323

  Robertson, Chris ^a   Boyle, Peter ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOTLAND; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032581128     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980630)17:12<1305::AID-SIM853>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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