Decomposition of life expectancy and expected life-years lost by disease

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1922-1936

  Lin, Charles C ^a   Johnson, Norman J ^a  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition by disease; Expected life years lost; Life expectancy; Pseudo survival function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INFECTION; INJURY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PARASITOSIS; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744810867     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2381     Document Type: Article

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