Title | AIDS Epidemiology [electronic resource] : Methodological Issues / edited by Nicholas P. Jewell, Klaus Dietz, Vernon T. Farewell |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Birkhรคuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1229-2 |
Descript | XVII, 402 p. 82 illus. online resource |
Section 1. The Backcalculation Technique for Reconstruction of HIV Infection Patterns and AIDS Projections -- Perspectives on Using Backcalculation to Estimate HIV Prevalence and Project AIDS Incidence -- Statistical Methods for Reconstructing Infection Curves -- Uncertainty About the Incubation Period of AIDS and Its Impact on Backcalculation -- A Comprehensive Back-Calculation Framework for the Estimation and Prediction of AIDS Cases -- Use of Empirical Transformations in Nonparametric Back-projection of AIDS Incidence Data -- The HIV Epidemic in New York City: Statistical Methods for Projecting AIDS Incidence and Prevalence -- Section 2. HIV Transmission Models -- Triangles in Heterosexual HIV Transmission -- Structured Population Models for HIV Infection Pair Formation and Non-constant Infectivity -- Weak Linkage Between HIV Epidemics in Homosexual Men and Intravenous Drug Users in New York City -- Section 3. Statistical Approaches to Markers of HIV Disease Progression -- Marker Models in Survival Analysis and Applications to Issues Associated with AIDS -- Modeling a Marker of Disease Progression and Onset of Disease -- The Relationship of CD4 Counts Over Time to Survival in Patients with AIDS: Is CD4 a Good Surrogate Marker? -- Modeling the Relationship Between Progression of CD4-Lymphocyte Count and Survival Time -- Recovery of Information and Adjustment for Dependent Censoring Using Surrogate Markers -- Section 4. General Methodological Investigations -- Semi-Parametric Estimation of the Incubation Period of AIDS -- Using Semiparametric Risk Sets for the Analysis of Cross-Sectional Duration Data -- Is Earlier Better for AZT Therapy in IIIV Infection? A Mathematical Model -- On the Estimation Problem of Mixing/Pair Formation Matrices with Applications to Models for Sexually-Transmitted Diseases