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Competing risks, left truncation and late entry effect in A-bomb survivors cohort

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Anzures-Cabrera, J. and Hutton, Jane (Statistician). (2010) Competing risks, left truncation and late entry effect in A-bomb survivors cohort. Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol.37 (No.5). pp. 821-831. ISSN 0266-4763

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664760902914417

Abstract

The cohort under study comprises A-bomb survivors residing in Hiroshima Prefecture since 1968. After this year, thousands of survivors were newly recognized every year. The aim of this study is to determine whether the survival experience of the late entrants to the cohort is significantly different from the registered population in 1968. Parametric models that account for left truncation and competing risks were developed by using sub-hazard functions. A Weibull distribution was used to determine the possible existence of a late entry effect in Hiroshima A-bomb survivors. The competing risks framework shows that there might be a late entry effect in the male and female groups. Our findings are congruent with previous studies analysing similar populations.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

D History General and Old World > D History (General)
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine

Divisions:

Faculty of Science > Statistics

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi, Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect, Atomic bomb -- Psychological aspects

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Applied Statistics

Publisher:

Routledge

ISSN:

0266-4763

Official Date:

May 2010

Dates:

Date	Event
May 2010	Published

Volume:

Vol.37

Number:

No.5

Page Range:

pp. 821-831

Identification Number:

10.1080/02664760902914417

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Access rights to Published version:

Open Access

Funder:

Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) [Mexican Council for Science and Technology] (CONACYT)

Grant number:

U.1052.00.011 (MRC), 160987 (160987)

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