Approaches to fitting age-period-cohort models with unequal intervals

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 977-993

  Holford, Theodore R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age period cohort analysis; Estimable functions; Lung cancer trends; Splines

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENDER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; CONNECTICUT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33644778557     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2253     Document Type: Article

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