Accounting for follow-up bias in estimation of human immunodeficiency virus incidence rates

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

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 127-140

  Brookmeyer, Ron ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backcalculation; Epidemiology; human immunodeficiency virus incidence; Prevalence; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041165301     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00049     Document Type: Article

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