Frailty modeling of bimodal age-incidence curves of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in low-risk populations

Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 501-514

  Haugen, Marion ^a   Bray, Freddie ^a,b   Grotmol, Tom ^b   Tretli, Steinar ^b   Aalen, Odd O ^a,b   Moger, Tron A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c Institute of Health Management and Health Economics   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Compound Poisson; Frailty; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NEWBORN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70149093983     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxp007     Document Type: Article

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