On Exploring Hidden Structures Behind Cervical Cancer Incidence.
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SUBMITTER: Lietzen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156216 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan-Dec
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On Exploring Hidden Structures Behind Cervical Cancer Incidence.
Lietzén Niko N Pitkäniemi Janne J Heinävaara Sirpa S Ilmonen Pauliina P
Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center 20180101 1
Finding new etiological components is of great interest in disease epidemiology. We consider time series version of invariant coordinate selection (tICS) as an exploratory tool in the search of hidden structures in the analysis of population-based registry data. Increasing cancer burden inspired us to consider a case study of age-stratified cervical cancer incidence in Finland between the years 1953 and 2014. The latent components, which we uncover using tICS, show that the etiology of cervical ...[more]
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