Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis among children born from 1992 to 2003 in California | Zendy

Katherine M. Keyes | Zendy; Ezra Susser | Zendy; Keely CheslackPostava | Zendy; Christine Fountain | Zendy; Kayuet Liu | Zendy; Peter Bearman | Zendy

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Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis among children born from 1992 to 2003 in California

Author(s) -

Katherine M. Keyes,

Ezra Susser,

Keely CheslackPostava,

Christine Fountain,

Kayuet Liu,

Peter Bearman

Publication year - 2011

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/dyr193

Subject(s) - autism , cohort , incidence (geometry) , medicine , cohort effect , cohort study , pediatrics , odds ratio , confidence interval , autism spectrum disorder , demography , psychiatry , physics , sociology , optics

The incidence and prevalence of autism have dramatically increased over the last 20 years. Decomposition of autism incidence rates into age, period and cohort effects disentangle underlying domains of causal factors linked to time trends. We estimate an age-period-cohort effect model for autism diagnostic incidence overall and by level of functioning.

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