Simplified models of screening for chronic disease: estimation procedures from mass screening programmes.
The performance of a screening programme depends on a number of parameters, which may need different types of information for their estimation. In this paper, two characteristics of interest, the sojourn-time distribution and the sensitivity, are considered, and estimation procedures, based on data which should be available from a mass screening programme, are proposed. The methods are applied to published data from the HIP breast cancer screening project, to which a negative exponential distribution for the sojourn-time distribution fitted better than the other families of distribution considered.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008954:Models, Biological; D009518:New York