On Estimating Incidence Rates of Diseases With Delayed Onset Using Biased Samples

DOI10.2307/2291678MaRDI QIDQ3129069zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Agnes Berger, Carol A. Bodian, Warren M. Hirsch

Publication date 27 April 1997

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2291678

zbMATH Keywords

Alzheimer's diseaseascertainment biasasymptotic normalitybiased samplecensored dataconsistencyfamilial aggregation of diseasesgenetic epidemiologyGreenwood's formulaindex case estimatorslife tablelifetime risksize-biased sampling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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