Are standardized mortality ratios valid for public health data analysis?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1081-1088

  Goldman, Daniel A ^a   Brender, Jean D ^b  

^a Expert Health Data Programming Inc   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; TEXAS;

EID: 0034732659     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000430)19:8<1081::AID-SIM406>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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