Nonidentifiability in stochastic models of illness and death.
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 74 (4) , 1338-1340
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.74.4.1338
Abstract
Interpretation of animal survival experiments in which disease incidence is determined at death or following sacrifice involves ambiguities. Quantities of interest, such as the expected duration of life for an animal contracting a specific disease at a specific age, are nonidentifiable. An example is constructed in which 2 populations of animals appear similar to the experimenter, but in which animals contracting a particular disease in 1 population may have double the life expectancy of similarly afflicted animals in the other population.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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