Probabilistic population estimation of the size and overlap of data sets based on date of birth

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9-10, 2001, Pages 1421-1430

  Banks, Steven M ^a   Pandiani, John A ^a  

^a Bristol Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HOSPITAL; POPULATION; PRIVACY; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0035873792     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.679     Document Type: Article

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