Empirical bayes estimation of cancer mortality rates

Statistics in Medicine - Tập 4 Số 2 - Trang 201-212 - 1985
Robert K. Tsutakawa1, Gary L. Shoop2, Carl J. Marienfeld3
1Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, U.S.A.
2Department of Computer Resource Management, Trans World Airlines, P.O. Box 20007, Level 4 CRM, Kansas City, Missouri 64195, U.S.A.
3Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, U.S.A.

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AbstractMortality rates for specific cancer types and age‐sex groups computed for large numbers of cities typically show extreme fluctuation. This is primarily due to the rare occurrence of specific cancer deaths in most of the small and moderate size cities during a fixed time period. Assuming a Poisson death process, we use an empirical Bayes method to obtain adjusted rates that are more stable for comparison of cities and prediction of future mortality. We have chosen stomach and bladder cancers in Missouri cities to illustrate the problems, techniques and results.

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Statistics in Medicine

Tập 4 Số 2

201-212

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