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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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562
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Biometrics Section
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Abstract - #308176 |
Title:
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The Long Tail of Disease Modeling
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Author(s):
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Abraham D. Flaxman*+ and Stephen S. Lim and Christopher J.L. Murray
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Companies:
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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
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Address:
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2301 5th Ave., Suite 600, Seattle, WA, 98121,
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Keywords:
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Disease Modeling ;
Bayesian ;
MCMC ;
Global Health ;
Health Metrics
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Abstract:
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The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), is a major study which needs to know about the incidence and duration of many diseases, injuries, and risk factors for 21 regions of the world. Data is not voluminous in high-income regions, and is quite sparsely availble in middle- and low-income regions. Hence the need for disease modeling to estimate the epidemiological parameters needed for GBD.
This is accomplished with a generic model of disease progression through a population. The model parameters are estimated in a Bayesian framework, to allow epidemiologists to combine all data extracted from literature reviews with their prior knowledge about the nature of disease, in order to produce consistent estimates of age-specific prevalence, incidence, duration, etc.
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