Quantifying the change of melanoma incidence by Breslow thickness Journal Article
| Authors: | Qin, J.; Berwick, M.; Ashbolt, R.; Dwyer, T. |
| Article Title: | Quantifying the change of melanoma incidence by Breslow thickness |
| Abstract: | Melanoma incidence has increased throughout the world over the past 25 years. A surrogate for the severity of melanoma is the Breslow thickness of the lesions. Data on melanoma, including Breslow thickness, were collected in 1978-1980 and 1988-1990 from the Tasmania Tumor Registry. We use a density ratio model to quantify the change of melanoma by Breslow thickness. In this model, the ratio of two densities is assumed to have a known form up to a parameter, but the underlying densities are not modeled. This model includes the length bias sampling model as a special case. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic is used to test the correctness of the density ratio model. Model-based cumulative distribution estimation is studied. Methodology developed in this article is applied to the Tasmania Tumor Registry data. |
| Keywords: | cancer incidence; melanoma; models, biological; skin neoplasms; registries; quantitative analysis; models, statistical; cancer epidemiology; statistical model; biometry; sampling; disease; likelihood functions; likelihood ratio test; breslow thickness; humans; human; article; tasmania; density ratio model; kolmogorov-smirnov test; length bias sampling |
| Journal Title: | Biometrics |
| Volume: | 58 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| ISSN: | 0006-341X |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell |
| Date Published: | 2002-09-01 |
| Start Page: | 665 |
| End Page: | 670 |
| Language: | English |
| PUBMED: | 12230002 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00665.x |
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| Notes: | Export Date: 14 November 2014 -- Source: Scopus |
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