A double-nonparametric procedure for estimating the number of delay-reported cases

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3325-3339

  Lin, Huazhen ^a   Yip, Paul S F ^b   Huggins, Richard M ^c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Double nonparametric; Hong Kong; Local polynomial; Reporting delay; Reverse time transformation; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUICIDE;

EID: 48249138126     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3183     Document Type: Article

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