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Completeness of ascertainment by cancer registries: putting bounds on the number of missing cases

Author(s) -

P Silcocks,

David S. Robinson

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdh140

Subject(s) - completeness (order theory) , statistics , computer science , cancer incidence , medicine , data mining , epidemiology , mathematics , pathology , mathematical analysis

When comparing cancer incidence or mortality rates between different regions, it is important to know how complete the registration data are on which these figures are based. A number of ways of estimating completeness have been proposed, but it is often difficult to say how precise these estimates are. We describe a computer program developed to produce measures of precision for estimates of completeness obtained by one such method, the flow method.

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