A partial SMR approach to smoothing age-specific rates

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-99

  Lee, Wen Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic Methods; Smoothing; Standardization; Standardized Mortality Ratio; Vital Statistics

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION;

ACCIDENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MORTALITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 0037305666     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(02)00266-1     Document Type: Article

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