Age-period-cohort analysis of motor vehicle mortality in Taiwan, 1974-1992

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 619-626

  Tsauo, Jau Yih ^a   Lee, Wen Chung ^b   Wang, Jung Der ^a  

^a Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age period cohort analysis; Mortality rate; Motor vehicle mortality; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030227260     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(96)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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