Rocchetti, Irene; Taruscio, Domenica; Alfò, Marco - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 39 (2012) 4, pp. 711-721
In this paper, we analyze data from the Italian National Register of Rare Diseases (NRRD) focusing, in particular, on the geo-temporal distribution of patients affected by neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1, ICD9CM code 237.71). The aim is at deriving a corrected measure of incidence for the period...