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Multiple cancer sites incidence rates estimation using a multivariate Bayesian model

Author(s) -

Renato Assunção

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyh040

Subject(s) - multivariate statistics , statistics , incidence (geometry) , cancer , confidence interval , cancer incidence , credible interval , estimation , bayesian probability , multivariate analysis , age adjustment , demography , cancer registry , standardized rate , medicine , mathematics , epidemiology , geometry , management , sociology , economics

In Brazil cancer incidence rates have to be estimated from occasional surveys, due to lack of continuous cancer registries. Many estimated rates have very large variances, because only few years of data were collected. When dealing with a single cancer site, it is possible to adopt a Bayesian method which borrows information about the cancer rates from other geographical areas to estimate the cancer rate in a given area. We suggest an additional improvement to this method which explores the correlation between multiple cancer sites rates in a same area and in different areas.

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