RT info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
T1 Testing for unimodality in mortality trends
A1 Rueda Sabater, María Cristina
A1 Ugarte Martínez, María Dolores
A1 Fernández Militino, Ana
AB In some diseases it is well-known that a unimodal mortality pattern exists. A clear example in developed countries is breast cancer, where mortality increased sharply until the nineties and then decreased. This clear unimodal pattern is not necessarily generalizable to all regions within a country. In this work, we develop statistical tests to check if this unimodality persists within regions using order restricted inference. The same methodology will be also used to provide change-points within regions as well as con dence intervals. Results will be illustrated using age-speci c breast cancer mortality data from Spain in the period 1975-2005.
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22926
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22926
LA eng
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-nov-2024