Bayesian evaluation of breast cancer screening using data from two studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1661-1674

  Myles, Jonathan P ^a   Nixon, Richard M ^b   Duffy, Stephen W ^a   Tabar, Laszlo ^c   Boggis, Caroline ^d   Evans, Gareth ^e   Shenton, Andrew ^f   Howell, Anthony ^f  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Nightingale Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; MCMC; Screening; Sensitivity; Sojourn time; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SWEDEN; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037687714     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1365     Document Type: Article

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