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Estimating the standardized incidence ratio (SIR) with incomplete follow-up data

BACKGROUND: A standard parameter to compare the disease incidence of a cohort relative to the population is the standardized incidence ratio (SIR). For statistical inference is commonly assumed that the denominator, the expected number of cases, is fixed. If a disease registry is available, incident...

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Autores principales: Becher, Heiko, Winkler, Volker
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28403811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0335-3