title: A computer program for the statistical analysis of disease prevalence data from survival/sacrifice experiments.
abstract: This paper presents a computer program for analyzing disease prevalence data from animal survival experiments in which there may also be some serial sacrifice. The method has been described in Biometrics 35 (1979) 221-234. The user is interrogated about the details of particular models he wishes to fit. Then a generalized EM algorithm is used to compute maximum likelihood estimates of various quantities of interest concerning the effects of treatment, time and presence of other diseases on the prevalences and lethalities of specific diseases of interest.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D001699:Biometry; D003201:Computers; D008954:Models, Biological; D012984:Software