Backcalculation of Multiple Sclerosis Incidence Rates Based on Faroe Islands Data

To address the controversial hypothesis that multiple sclerosis is infectious, detailed analysis is performed on a data set from the Faroe Islands using the backcalculation technique developed in the study of HIV incidence. The method reconstructs an incidence intensity function. The influence of co...

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Main Authors: Jewell, Nicholas P., Lu, Biao Wm.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive 1996
Subjects:
Backcalculation
Poisson process
penalized likelihood
ES approach
Disease Modeling
Medical Specialties
Faroe Islands
Online Access:https://biostats.bepress.com/ucbbiostat/paper57
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Summary:To address the controversial hypothesis that multiple sclerosis is infectious, detailed analysis is performed on a data set from the Faroe Islands using the backcalculation technique developed in the study of HIV incidence. The method reconstructs an incidence intensity function. The influence of covariates and dependence among diagnosis times are also considered.

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