How to obtain long term projections for smoking behaviour: A case study in the Dutch population

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-164

  Capannesi, Maurizio ^a,b   Boshuizen, Hendriek C ^b   Willemsen, Marc C ^c   van Houwelingen, Hans C ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c Expertise Centre on Tobacco Control   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Restricted quadratic regression spline model; Sensitivity analysis; Smoking prevalence rates; State transition models; Transition rates; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKE;

MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; OUTPUT VARIABILITY; PREVALENCE RATES; QUADRATIC REGRESSION; REGRESSION SPLINES; SMOKING PREVALENCES; STATE TRANSITION MODELS; TRANSITION RATES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATE TRANSITION MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 68049139705     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17486700802260101     Document Type: Article

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