Probability Modeling and Statistical Inference in Cancer Screening

by Dongfeng Wu

Cancer screening has been carried out for six decades - however, there are many unsolved problems: how to estimate key parameters involved in screenings, such as sensitivity, the time duration in the preclinical state (i.e., sojourn time), and time duration in the disease-free state; how to estimate the distribution of lead time, the diagnosis time advanced by screening; how to evaluate the long-term outcomes of screening, including the probability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032513306
• ISBN13: 9781032513300
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"