Gigli, Anna (2007) Numerical estimation of the variance of the completeness index applied to cancer data. Working Paper. IRPPS - CNR, Roma.
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Abstract
Cancer prevalence is the proportion of people in a population diagnosed with cancer in the past and still alive. One way to estimate prevalence is via population-based registries, where data on diagnosis and life status of all incident cases occurring in the covered population are collected. In this report a numerical method for the estimation of the variance of the completeness index (NUMCOMP) is developed, and comparisons are made with a previous analytical method (VARCOMP) proposed by Gigli et al.(2006). The paper is organized as follows: section 1 introduces the problem; section 2 illustrates the new method; section 3 describes the algorithm in details; finally in section 4 the new and old methods are applied to the following cancer sites: all sites, anus, brain, colorectal for males and females, and to breast cancer for females (all races/ethnicities) and results are compared and commented.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Additional Information: | Fa parte di: IRPPS Working paper (13/2007) - ISSN: 2240-7332 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Complete prevalence, Cancer registries, Incidence, Survival, Numerical derivatives, SEER*Stat software |
Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 614 Medicina legale; incidenza delle malattie; Medicina preventiva pubblica > 614.5 Incidenza di specifiche malattie e tipi di malattia e misure pubbliche per prevenirle |
Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2014 16:25 |
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2014 16:25 |
URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/8575 |
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