Resampling Evaluation of Signal Detection and Classification : With Special Reference to Breast Cancer, Computer-Aided Detection and the Free-Response Approach
The first part of this thesis is concerned with trend modelling of breast cancer mortality rates. By using an age-period-cohort model, the relative contributions of period and cohort effects are evaluated once the unquestionable existence of the age effect is controlled for. The result of such a mod...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsvetenskap
2007
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7452 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-6783-8 |