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Solutions for Quantitative Problems in Cancer Surveillance and Control

The Statistical Research and Applications Branch is involved in a wide variety of projects which use statistical and mathematical modeling to improve the presentation and analysis of national cancer statistics, and to provide a vital nexus between data and their utility for assessing progress in cancer control.

Examples of past and ongoing projects include:

  • the estimation of the variability of vital rates: an improved confidence interval for directly standardized rates has been developed, and a method has been developed to estimate the degree of extra-Poisson variation of vital rates;
  • methods to estimate the representativeness of the SEER data system and to project national incidence from SEER incidence;
  • methods to estimate medical costs for cancer patients when follow-up is incomplete;
  • models of relative and cause-specific survival including possible leveling off of the survival curve (i.e., cure);
  • Joinpoint regression methods to estimate statistically significant changes in cancer trends.

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07 Jul 2006
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