Document Type
Report
Source Publication Title
Technical Report 115
Abstract
An illness-death process is an absorbing Markov process where the illness states from the transient states of the process. This paper deals with the estimation of illness-death parameters from survivor data. The parameters of interest include the probabilities of recovery, relapse and death and mean residence times. The estimation problem is considered from the point of view of the theory of structural identifiability in compartmental analysis. As a prototypical example, we consider published data on preinfarctional angina.
Disciplines
Mathematics | Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Publication Date
1-1-1979
Language
English
License
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Recommended Citation
Eisenfeld, Jerome and Canada, B., "Parameter Estimation in Illness-Death Processes: Preinfaractional Angina" (1979). Mathematics Technical Papers. 284.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/math_technicalpapers/284