Projection of mesothelioma mortality in Britain using Bayesian methods
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Simple benchmark for mesothelioma projection for Great Britain.
BACKGROUND It is of considerable interest to forecast the future burden of mesothelioma mortality. Data on deaths are available, whereas no measure of asbestos exposure is available. METHODS We compare two Poisson models: a response-only model with an age-cohort specification and a multinomial model with epidemiologically motivated frequencies. RESULTS The response-only model has 5% higher ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605781