Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Cancer Research

Forecasting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Mortality using a Weighted Regression Model to Estimate Cohort Effects in Taiwan

I-Shiang Tzeng^*1, Chan-Yen Kuo¹, Chia-Chi Wang^*2

¹Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, ²Department of Gastroenterology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation and School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University

We depict a multistage method to measure a cohort effect with age data, thereby allowing data to be eliminated in many situations without sacrificing data quality. The protocol demonstrates the strategy and provides a weighted regression model for analyzing the hepatocellular carcinoma data.