Covariate adjustment and ranking methods to identify regions with high and low mortality rates

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 613-620

  Li, Huilin ^a   Graubard, Barry I ^a   Gail, Mitchell H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Incidence rate maps; Mortality rate maps; Poisson Gamma model; Ranking procedures; Standardized incidence ratio; Standardized mortality ratio

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

GAMMA MODELS; INCIDENCE RATE; INCIDENCE RATE MAP; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RATE MAP; POISSON GAMMAS; POISSON-GAMMA MODEL; RANKING PROCEDURES; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIOS;

DISEASES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953014199     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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