Calculation of the mean duration and age of onset of a chronic disease and application to dementia in Germany

2011/12/27 by Brinks, Ralph
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1112.5966

Abstract

This paper descibes a new method of calculating the mean duration and mean age of onset of a chronic disease from incidence and mortality rates. It is based on an ordinary differential equation resulting from a simple compartment model. Applicability of the method is demonstrated in data about dementia in Germany.

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