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On the error of incidence estimation from prevalence data

Populations and Evolution 2014-10-06 v1 Applications

Abstract

This paper describes types of errors arising in a recently proposed method of incidence estimation from prevalence data. The errors are illustrated by a simulation study about a hypothetical irreversible disease. In addition, a way of obtaining error bounds in practical applications of the method is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0936,
  title  = {On the error of incidence estimation from prevalence data},
  author = {Ralph Brinks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0936},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures

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