Optimal weighting systems for direct age-adjustment of vital rates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2645-2654

  Lee, Wen Chung ^a   Liaw, Yung Po ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0033570189     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991015)18:19<2645::AID-SIM184>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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