Nonparametric Estimation of Solid Cancer Size at Metastasis and Probability of Presenting with Metastasis at Detection

DOI10.2307/2533959zbMATH Open0888.62114OpenAlexW4300520585WikidataQ47307826 ScholiaQ47307826MaRDI QIDQ4349971FDOQ4349971

Authors Philip C. Prorok, Jian-Lun Xu

Publication date 14 June 1998

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2533959

zbMATH Keywords

nonparametric maximum likelihoodlung cancermetastasessize-dependent probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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