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Relationships between incidence and mortality in non‐reversible diseases
Author(s) -
Capocaccia Riccardo
Publication year - 1993
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.4780122415
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , stomach cancer , population , convolution (computer science) , exponential function , cancer , medicine , statistics , estimation , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , mathematics , demography , immunology , computer science , mathematical analysis , environmental health , geometry , management , machine learning , sociology , artificial neural network , economics
The estimation of the incidence of chronic diseases from mortality and survival rates is shown to be attainable, under some simplifying hypotheses, through the solution of a convolution equation. Exact solutions are derived for the cases in which survival times of incident cases are exponential or gamma distributed. Applications to breast cancer, HIV infection and stomach cancer incidence in the Italian population are presented.