Deriving age-specific incidence from prevalence with an ordinary differential equation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2070-2078

  Brinks, Ralph ^a   Landwehr, Sandra ^a   Icks, Andrea ^a   Koch, Michael ^b   Giani, Guido ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH AT HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b Centre for Nephrology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Incidence; Mortality; Prevalence; Renal replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84877635574     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5651     Document Type: Article

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