American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on June 20, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(3):293-294; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj222
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THE AUTHORS REPLY
1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
2 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, United Kingdom
(e-mail: issy.bray@bristol.ac.uk)
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We thank Clements et al. (1
) for their interest in our paper (2
). Bayesian age-period-cohort models are just one of several alternative approaches to modeling and projecting cancer rates. Strengths of the Bayesian age-period-cohort approach include its flexibility to deal with