Estimating the distribution of a renewal process from times at which events from an independent process are detected

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 838-846

  Song, Ruiguang ^a   Karon, John M ^b   White, Edward ^c   Goldbaum, Gary ^c,d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Emergint Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV testing; Length biased sampling; Renewal process

Indexed keywords

VIRUSES;

BIASED SAMPLING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TESTING; LENGTH-BIASED DATA; LENGTH-BIASED SAMPLING; RENEWAL PROCESS; SPECIFIC TIME; TIME POINTS; WINDOW PERIOD;

DISEASES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 33748789577     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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