Comparing trends in cancer rates across overlapping regions

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1280-1286

  Li, Yi ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age adjusted cancer rates; Annual percent change (APC); Hypothesis testing; Pitman asymptotic relative efficiency (ARE); Surveillance; Trends

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH CARE; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGE-ADJUSTED CANCER RATE; ANNUAL PERCENT CHANGE; ASYMPTOTIC RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; BREAST CANCER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY RATE; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE; PITMAN ASYMPTOTIC RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SURVEILLANCE; TREND;

EFFICIENCY;

AGE STRUCTURE; CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATE CANCER; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56049101408     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01002.x     Document Type: Article

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