Predicting coronary heart disease mortality - Assessing uncertainties in population forecasts and death probabilities by using Bayesian inference

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1246-1252

  Huovinen, Elisa ^a   Härkänen, Tommi ^a   Martelin, Tuija ^a   Koskinen, Seppo ^a   Aromaa, Arpo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Coronary heart disease; Mortality; Prediction

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; AGING POPULATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33750204882     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl128     Document Type: Article

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