Kafle, Ram C.; Khanal, Netra; Tsokos, Chris P. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 41 (2014) 12, pp. 2727-2742
Joinpoint regression model identifies significant changes in the trends of the incidence, mortality, and survival of a specific disease in a given population. The purpose of the present study is to develop an age-stratified Bayesian joinpoint regression model to describe mortality trend assuming...