Acquired immune deficiency syndrome projections in England and Wales: Interplay of methodology and data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-176

  De Angelis, D ^a,b,c   Day, N E ^a   Gill, O N ^b  

^a Med Res Cncl Biostatistics Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); AIDS projections in England and Wales; Back calculation; HIV epidemic in England and Wales; HIV prevalence; Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Methodology for AIDS projections and data acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038979362     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00096     Document Type: Article

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