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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2012 Feb 7;68(2):521–531. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01708.x

Table 3.

Estimation of population proportion of stage at diagnosis for elderly ovarian cancer patients

Year Sample proportion
Bias adjusted estimate (95% CI)
Localized (%) Regional (%) Distant (%) Localized (%) Regional (%) Distant (%)
1973–1977 72 14 15 22 (18–27) 10 (7–13) 68 (61–73)
1978–1982 27 14 29 18 (16–21) 8 (7–10) 73 (70–76)
1983–1987 23 8 69 18 (17–19) 7 (6–8) 74 (72–75)
1988–1992 21 7 72
1993–1997 20 7 73
1998–2002 15 7 78