Statistical Analysis of Discrete Cancer Surveillance

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Estimation Problems in Cancer Screening

• Estimation from Surveillance Data

• Example. Breast Cancer Recurrence

• Doubly Censored Data

  • The Problem

  • Nonparametric Estimation

  • Data Grouping

  • Parametric Estimation

  • Example. Radiation-induced Thyropathy

• The Empirical Distribution Function with Incomplete Data

  • The Problem

  • The Algorithm

  • Complexity

  • Example. Discrete Surveillance