Uncertainty due to model choice in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease projections

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-93

  Bacchetti, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Back calculation; Deconvolution; Publication bias; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 11344263342     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1924     Document Type: Article

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