Checking stationarity of the incidence rate using prevalent cohort survival data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1751-1767

  Asgharian, Masoud ^a   Wolfson, David B ^a   Zhang, Xun ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censoring; Cross sectional survey; Kaplan Meier estimator; Length biased samples; Prevalent cohort; Truncation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CENSORSHIP; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE OF ONSET; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646774664     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2326     Document Type: Article

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