S3RI Seminar - Age-period-cohort models for cancer incidence and mortality, Dr Theresa Smith (University of Bath) Seminar
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Date:
- 22 February 2018
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre 8C, Room 8031, Building 54, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Helen Ogden at H.E.Ogden@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Age-period-cohort models have been used to examine and forecast cancer incidence and mortality for over three decades. However, the fitting and interpretation of these models requires great care because of the well-known identifiability problem that exists; given any two of age, period, and cohort, the third is determined. In this talk I introduce APC models and the identifiability problem. I examine proposed ‘’solutions’’ to this problem and approaches based on an identifiable parametrization. I conclude with an analysis of cancer incidence data from Washington State and a discussion of future research directions.
Speaker information
Dr Theresa Smith, University of Bath. I am a Lecturer in the Statistics group in Bath, and my research is in methods for data with spatial and temporal structure. In particular, I am interested in applications in public health and medicine and in computation for latent Gaussian models.