Nonparametric incidence estimation from prevalent cohort survival data

Biometrika

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 599-613

  Carone, Marco ^a   Asgharian, Masoud ^b   Wang, Mei Cheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Age specific incidence; Cross sectional sampling; Left truncation; Point process; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865480580     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/ass017     Document Type: Article

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