Quantifying the family frailty effect in infant and child mortality by using median hazard ratio (MHR)

Historical Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-27

  Bengtsson, Tommy ^a   Dribe, Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Family clustering; Frailty; Infant mortality; Median hazard ratios; Median odds ratios (MORs); Multilevel analysis; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CHILD MORTALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY STRUCTURE; GENDER ISSUE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFANT MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 76449099530     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440903270299     Document Type: Article

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