Age-specific back-rejection of HIV diagnosis data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2177-2190

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Lewis, J J C ^a,b   Li, Zhengfeng ^a   McDonald, Ann ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIDS diagnosis data; Back projection; EMS algorithm; HIV diagnosis data; HIV infection incidence; Smoothed nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0038388010     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1406     Document Type: Article

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