Parametric empirical Bayes estimates of disease prevalence using stratified samples from community populations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 681-695

  Beckett, Laurel A ^a   Tancredi, Daniel J ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034654492     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000315)19:5<681::AID-SIM343>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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