Joint analysis of HIV and AIDS surveillance data in back-calculation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 297-311

  Bellocco, Rino ^a,b   Marschner, Ian C ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ALGORITHMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034651974     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000215)19:3<297::AID-SIM340>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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