Forecasting age-specific breast cancer mortality using functional data models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 458-470

  Erbas, Bircan ^a   Hyndman, Rob J ^b   Gertig, Dorota M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Exponential smoothing; Forecasting; Functional data analysis; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33846250784     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2306     Document Type: Article

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