Short-term cancer mortality projections: A comparative study of prediction methods

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 3387-3402

  Lee, Terry C K ^a   Dean, C B ^a   Semenciw, Robert ^b  

^a Canadian HIV Trials Network   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age period cohort model; Cancer mortality; Forecast; Joinpoint; Prediction; Projection methods

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE PERIOD COHORT MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOREGRESSIVE TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINTPOINT TECHNIQUE; LOGLINEAR MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; STATE SPACE MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY;

CANADA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 81955167483     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4373     Document Type: Article

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