Simple Parametric Analysis of Animal Tumorigenicity Data
动物致瘤性数据的简单参数分析
The usual onset/death model for tumorigenicity data can be characterized by the tumor incidence rate and the conditional death rates for tumor-free and tumor-bearing animals. If the tumor is unobservable in live animals, however, these rates are difficult to estimate without cause-of-death data or numerous sacrifices. This article proposes simple but flexible parametric models for another set of functions that can be estimated directly from survival/sacrifice data. These…