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  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Public Health

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  • Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major liver cancer, often linked to cirrhosis.
  • Age-period-cohort (APC) models are used to analyze HCC mortality trends.
  • The multiphase method was developed to estimate cohort effects in age-period data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the multiphase method for estimating cohort effects in HCC mortality.
  • To assess the impact of weighted estimation on confidence intervals.
  • To analyze secular trends in HCC mortality by cohort.

Main Methods:

  • Applied the multiphase method to age-period contingency table data for HCC mortality.
  • Employed a regression model on residuals to estimate cohort effects.
  • Utilized weighted regression, with weights based on HCC deaths per cohort.

Main Results:

  • Weighted estimates yielded narrower confidence intervals (CI) compared to unweighted estimates.
  • HCC mortality trends reversed from increasing to decreasing for males (2006-2010) and females (2001-2005).
  • The multiphase method successfully identified cohort-specific mortality trend changes.

Conclusions:

  • Weighted estimation is recommended for the multiphase method in analyzing cohort effects.
  • Modifying the regression model with weighted averages improves CI for cohort effects.
  • This method enhances the analysis of secular trends in diseases like HCC.