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State model for partly undetected non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Ralph Brinks
This article proposes an age-structured compartment model for irreversible diseases with a pre-clinical state of undiagnosed cases that precedes the diagnosis. The model is able to…
On the error of incidence estimation from prevalence data
Ralph Brinks
This paper describes types of errors arising in a recently proposed method of incidence estimation from prevalence data. The errors are illustrated by a simulation study about a hy…
Change rates and prevalence of a dichotomous variable: simulations and applications
Ralph Brinks
Background: A common modelling approach in public health and epidemiology divides the population under study into compartments containing persons that share the same status. Here w…
Incidence, recovery and prevalence of infectious diseases: non-parametric disease model and application to influenza in Germany
Ralph Brinks
In this work we describe a non-parametric disease model that links the temporal change of the prevalence of an infectious disease to the incidence and the recovery rates. The model…