Day, Nicholas E.; Walter, Stephen D. Simplified models of screening for chronic disease: Estimation procedures from mass screening programmes. (English) Zbl 0534.62074 Biometrics 40, 1-14 (1984). Summary: The performance of a screening programme depends on a number of parameters, which may need different types of information for their estimation. In this paper, two characteristics of interest, the sojourn- time distribution and the sensitivity, are considered, and estimation procedures, based on data which should be available from a mass screening programme, are proposed. The methods are applied to published data from the HIP breast cancer screening project, to which a negative exponential distribution for the sojourn-time distribution fitted better than the other families of distributions considered. Cited in 27 Documents MSC: 62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis Keywords:simplified models of screening; chronic disease; estimation procedures; sojourn-time distribution; sensitivity; HIP breast cancer screening project; negative exponential distribution PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{N. E. Day} and \textit{S. D. Walter}, Biometrics 40, 1--14 (1984; Zbl 0534.62074) Full Text: DOI