Timing medical examinations via intensity functions

DOI10.1093/BIOMET/84.4.803zbMath0891.92018OpenAlexW1978556630MaRDI QIDQ4376592

Giovanni Parmigiani

Publication date: 18 June 1998

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/273231ffb7227d3b728c715217552668205da0dc

zbMATH Keywords

designbreast cancer screeningmedical decision makingchronic disease

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Differential games and control (49N70) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Statistical decision theory (62C99) Pursuit and evasion games (49N75)

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