A Generalized Beta Model for the Age Distribution of Cancers: Application to Pancreatic and Kidney Cancer

The relationships between cancer incidence rates and the age of patients at cancer diagnosis are a quantitative basis for modeling age distributions of cancer. The obtained model parameters are needed to build rigorous statistical and biological models of cancer development. In this work, a new math...

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Main Authors: Tengiz Mdzinarishvili, Michael X. Gleason, Leo Kinarsky, Simon Sherman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-01-01
Series:Cancer Informatics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/CIN.S3050