Modelowanie czasu życia chorych na nowotwory
Model creation of the life expectancy for cancer patients
Author(s): Sylwia Kosznik-BiernackaSubject(s): Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: statistics methodology; medical data; model of the life expectancy
Summary/Abstract: The article presents a medical data analysis and a model of the life expectancy for cancer patients. The model function is of the initial rising and then monotonic declining distribution. The Makeham's Complementary Distribution characterizes such function intensity. The base characteristic of the life expectancy by the Makeham's Complementary Distribution as well as two examples for big and small samples of using this distribution for describing the clinical data are presented in the article.
Journal: Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician
- Issue Year: 54/2009
- Issue No: 05
- Page Range: 22-35
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish