Angular regression and the detection of the seasonal onset of disease

Journal of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-35

  Gao, F ^a   Seah, S K L ^b   Foster, P J ^c   Chia, K S ^d   Machin, D ^a,e  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Faculty of Medicine   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angular regression; Glaucoma; Onset of disease; Seasonality; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ACUTE DISEASE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEASONS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0036054003     PISSN: 14766647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14766650252962658     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ross JA, Seversen RK, Swensen AR et al. Seasonal variations in the diagnosis of childhood cancer in the United States. Br J Cancer 2001;81:549-53.
2. Machin D, Chong SF. On the detection of the seasonal onset of disease. J Epidemiol Biostat 1998;3:385-94
3. Batschelet E. Circular statistics in biology. London: Academic Press, 1981.
4. Mardia KV. Statistics of directional data. New York: Academic Press, 1972.
5. Mardia KV, Jupp PE. Directional statistics. Chichester: Wiley, 2000.
6. Kirkham NH, Machin D. Cold weather and testicular torsion. Br Med J 1983;287:359.
7. Parker G, Gao F, Machin D. Seasonality of suicide in Singapore: data from the equator. Psychol Med 2001;31:549-53.
8. Douglas S, Cortina-Borja M, Cartwright R. Seasonal variation in the incidence of Hodgkin's disease. Br J Haematol 1998;103:653-62.
9. Stolwijk AM, Straatman H, Zielhuis GA. Studying seasonality by using sine and cosine functions in regression analysis. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1999;53:235-8.
10. Fisher NI, Lee AJ. Regression models for an angular response. Biometrics 1992;48:665-77.
11. Gao F, Machin D, Khoo K-S, Ng E-H. Seasonal variation in breast cancer diagnosis in Singapore. Br J Cancer 2001;84:1185-7.
12. Seah SKL, Foster PJ, Chew PTK et al. Incidence of acute primary angle-closure glaucoma in Singapore. Arch Ophthalmol 1997;115:1436-40.
13. Fisher NI. Statistical analysis of circular data. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
14. von Mises R. Über die 'Ganzzahligkeit' der Atomgewichte und verwandte Fragen. Phys Z 1918;19:490-500.
15. Lawson AB. GLIM and normalising constant models in spatial and directional data analysis. Comput Stat Data Anal 1992;13:331-48.
16. S-PLUS. S-PLUS 2000 programmer's guide. Seattle, WA: Data Analysis Products Division, MathSoft, 1999.
17. Parker G, Mahendran R, Koh ES, Machin D. Season of birth in schizophrenia: no latitude at the equator. Br J Psychiatry 2000;176:68-71.
18. Chong SF, Machin D. Incidence of corneal ulceration in South India. Ophthal Epidemiol 1998;5:3-5.
19. Machin D, Chong SF. Seasonal variation in the presentation and growth of thyroid cancer. Br J Cancer 1998;79:1626-7.
20. Machin D, Gao F. Seasonal variations in the diagnosis of childhood cancer. Br J Cancer 2000;83:699-700.
21. Fellman J, Eriksson AW. Statistical analysis of the seasonal variation in demographic data. Hum Biol 2000;72:851-76.
22. Little J, Elwood J M. Seasonal variation. In: Elwood J M, Little J, Elwood J H editors. Epidemiology and control of neural tube defects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, Chapter 7.