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Calculation of the mean duration and age of onset of a chronic disease and application to dementia in Germany (1112.5966v1)
Published 27 Dec 2011 in q-bio.QM, q-bio.PE, stat.AP, and stat.ME
Abstract: This paper descibes a new method of calculating the mean duration and mean age of onset of a chronic disease from incidence and mortality rates. It is based on an ordinary differential equation resulting from a simple compartment model. Applicability of the method is demonstrated in data about dementia in Germany.
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