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H. D. Tolley, D. Burdick, K. G. Manton, E. Stallard, A Compartment Model Approach to the Estimation of Tumor Incidence and Growth: Investigation of a Model of Cancer Latency, Biometrics, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 377-389
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