On the application of the von Mises distribution and angular regression methods to investigate the seasonality of disease onset

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1593-1618

  Gao, Fei ^a   Chia, Kee Seng ^b   Krantz, Ingela ^c   Nordin, Per ^c   Machin, David ^a,d  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Acute primary angle closure glaucoma; Angular regression; Leptospirosis; Seasonality; Von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATIENT INFORMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33646242998     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2463     Document Type: Article

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