Estimating HIV hazard rates from cross-sectional HIV prevalence data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2441-2449

  Wong, Kam Fai ^a,c   Tsai, Wei Yann ^a   Kuhn, Louise ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Current status data; Generalized linear model; HIV; Incidence; Maximum likelihood estimation; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 33745959386     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2371     Document Type: Article

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