Do cancer predictions work?

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 448-453

  Dyba, Tadeusz ^a   Hakulinen, Timo ^a  

^a FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Confidence interval; Ex post prediction; Incidence; Poisson distribution; Predictions; Projections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FINLAND; GROUPS BY AGE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 38749110359     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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