Article ID: | iaor19921801 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 19 |
Start Page Number: | 79 |
End Page Number: | 93 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1992 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Harris Carl M., Rattner E.R. |
Keywords: | spreadsheets |
The authors use a sequence of procedures, Cohort Cascade, built up from estimated progression rates for time-to-AIDS of an HIV-infected cohort to transform the currently published official U.S. AIDS Onset data (by year of diagnosis) into an estimated dataset for years 1976-1985. They then extrapolate rates based on this dataset to generate a second dataset for the years 1986-1995. For brevity’s sake, the combined output presented in this paper is an HIV stage-specific estimate of the HIV/AIDS population for the years 1976-1992. The present procedure includes the consideration of underreporting and lags in data collection.