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A double‐nonparametric procedure for estimating the number of delay‐reported cases
Author(s) -
Lin Huazhen,
Yip Paul S. F.,
Huggins Richard M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.3183
Subject(s) - nonparametric statistics , statistics , computer science , econometrics , mathematics
This paper proposes a double‐nonparametric procedure to estimate the population size for reporting delay data without the specification of the incidence function and the delay distribution function. Asymptotic results of the proposed estimator are given. Simulation studies show that the proposed procedure works better than the existing estimating procedures. The method has been applied to a suicide reporting system in Hong Kong for improving monitoring and surveillance purposes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.