A heuristic solution of the identifiability problem of the age-period-cohort analysis of cancer occurrence: Lung cancer example

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Mdzinarishvili, Tengiz ^a   Sherman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE PERIOD COHORT ANALYSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LUNG CANCER; MALE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT EFFECT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859364137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034362     Document Type: Article

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