Accounting for heaping in retrospectively reported event data - a mixture-model approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 3347-3365

  Bar, Haim Y ^a,b   Lillard, Dean R ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes; Heaping; Mixture model; Retrospective data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING CESSATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84869092260     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5419     Document Type: Article

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