Estimating HIV incidence using dates of both HIV and AIDS diagnoses

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1165-1177

  Cui, Jisheng ^a   Becker, Niels G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034657735     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000515)19:9<1165::AID-SIM419>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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