Uncertainty of AIDS incubation time and its effects on back-calculation estimates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 175-189

  Gigli, Anna ^a   Verdecchia, Arduino ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ITALY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0034731815     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000130)19:2<175::AID-SIM299>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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