Approximate confidence intervals for rate ratios from directly standardized rates with sparse data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2141-2160

  Fay, Michael P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic method; Exact test; Relative risk; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244443404     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929908832411     Document Type: Article

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