An age-stratified Poisson model for comparing trends in cancer rates across overlapping regions

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 608-619

  Li, Yi ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^b   Zou, Zhaohui ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Age adjusted incidence mortality rates; Age stratified Poisson regression; Annual percent change (APC); Hypothesis testing; Surveillance; Trends

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE-ADJUSTED INCIDENCE/MORTALITY RATE; AGE-STRATIFIED POISSON REGRESSION; ANNUAL PERCENT CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY RATE; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; POISSON REGRESSION; SURVEILLANCE; TIME INTERVAL; TREND;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 54349098689     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200710430     Document Type: Article

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