Estimating average annual percent change for disease rates without assuming constant change

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 847-854

  Fay, Michael P ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^b   Feuer, Eric J ^b   Zou, Zhaohui ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Age adjusted rates; Annual percent change; Percent change annualized; Rate ratio; Relative risk; Surveillance; Trends

Indexed keywords

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AGE-ADJUSTED RATE; ANNUAL PERCENT CHANGE; LINEAR MODELING; MORTALITY RATE; PERCENT CHANGE ANNUALIZED; RATE RATIOS; RELATIVE RISKS; SURVEILLANCE; TREND; TWO-POINT;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANNUAL CYCLE; DISEASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LINEARITY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEALTH SURVEY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY;

EID: 33748791181     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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