The competing explanations: Frailty or individual development? Examples from cancer and from network theory

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• Odd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo
• Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:30-15:30
• Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

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For many diseases, there is likely to be a large variation in individual susceptibility. This can be modelled by introducing frailty. We shall give several examples, in particular from cancer epidemiology and from cancer screening. Frailty explanations can often be seen as competing with mechanistic explanations. Probably, the degree of variation in susceptibility is generally underestimated.

This talk is part of the MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars series.

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