Age-period-cohort analysis with a constant-relative-variation constraint for an apportionment of period and cohort slopes.

Age-period-cohort analysis of incidence and/or mortality data has received much attention in the literature. To circumvent the non-identifiability problem inherent in the age-period-cohort model, additional constraints are necessary on the parameters estimates. We propose setting the constraint to r...

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Main Authors: Shih-Yung Su, Wen-Chung Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226678