University of Edinburgh
School of Mathematics and BioSS
Date: Friday 3rd November, 15:05, Location: JCMB 5323
Speaker: Theresa Smith, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
Title: Age-period-cohort models for cancer incidence and mortality.
Abstract: Age-period-cohort models have been used to examine and forecast cancer incidence and mortality for over three decades. However, the fitting and interpretation of these models requires great care because of the well-known identifiability problem that exists; given any two of age, period, and cohort, the third is determined. In this talk I introduce APC models and the identifiability problem. I examine proposed ‘’solutions’’ to this problem and approaches based on an identifiable parametrization. I conclude with an analysis of cancer incidence data from Washington State and a discussion of future research directions.
This seminar is a part of Maxwell Institute seminar series.
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