Estimating lifetime and age-conditional probabilities of developing cancer

DOI10.1023/A:1009685507602zbMATH Open0915.62093OpenAlexW2288804542WikidataQ50632395 ScholiaQ50632395MaRDI QIDQ1130145FDOQ1130145

Authors: Lap-Ming Wun, Ray M. Merrill, Eric J. Feuer 

Publication date: 4 July 1999

Published in: Lifetime Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009685507602

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zbMATH Keywords

incidencelife tablecancer prevalencecorpus and uterus NOS cancershysterectomy prevalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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