On Estimating Incidence Rates of Diseases with Delayed Onset Using Biased Samples
利用有偏样本估计迟发性疾病发病率
Consistent estimators are derived for the age-specific and lifetime incidence rates of late-onset diseases from censored, biased samples, using a discrete time model and a traditional assumption for size-biased sampling. The estimators are alternatives to the so-called index case estimators often used by epidemiologists under similar circumstances. The asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators is established and an adaptation of Greenwood's formula is given for…