Estimation of prevalence and incidence based on occurrence of health-related events

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3139-3154

  Støvring, Henrik ^a   Vach, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Incidence and prevalence; Occurrence of treatment events; Parametric maximum likelihood; Waiting time distribution

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 27144517649     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2142     Document Type: Article

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