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Activity Number:
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34
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
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| Abstract - #304663 |
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Title:
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Modeling the Incidence of Disease and the Two Sample Capture-Recapture Proceedure
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Author(s):
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Lawrence Lessner*+
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Companies:
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State University of New York/New York State Department of Health
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Address:
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26 Wilan Lane, Albany, NY, 12203,
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Keywords:
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capture-recapture ; Poisson ; Lincoln-Peterson ; incidence of disease
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Abstract:
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The objective of this work is to model the capture-recapture procedure as a point process (PP) and explore the assumptions usually made for the Lincoln-Peterson estimator. This presentation begins with a very general model for the incidence of disease as an empiric PP which includes competing causes of death. The capture-recapture procedure is modeled for each person as a succession of incident events/decisions over time using the marked PP. Both the general PP and the PP using a Poisson approximation are examined for the validity of the assumptions of the Lincoln-Peterson.
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