Two approaches for estimating disease prevalence from population-based registries of incidence and total mortality

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1137-1144

  Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Kessler, Larry ^b   Midthune, Douglas ^a   Scoppa, Steven ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias of prevalence estimate; Cancer registry; Chronic disease prevalence; Lexis diagram; Precision of prevalence estimate; Prevalence estimation

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK PERCEPTION;

BIAS OF PREVALENCE ESTIMATE; CANCER REGISTRIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE PREVALENCE; COMMON DISEASE; LEXIS DIAGRAM; POPULATION SIZES; PRECISION OF PREVALENCE ESTIMATE; PREVALENCE ESTIMATION; TRANSITION RATES;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN;

LEXIS;

EID: 0032715450     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.01137.x     Document Type: Article

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