Estimation of incidence from aggregated current status data

2023/03/06 by Ralph Brinks, Brinks, Ralph
Medicine · #Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Methodology (stat.ME)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.03253

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Abstract

We use historical data about breathlessness in British coal miners and recent data about diabetes in Germany to illustrate a method for deriving the age-specific incidence from aggregated current status data, i.e. age-specific prevalence data. The method is centered on a differential equation, and special focus is put on maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of confidence intervals.

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