Estimating lifetime and age-conditional probabilities of developing cancer

DOI10.1023/A:1009685507602MaRDI QIDQ1130145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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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