Context Informed Statistics in Two Cases: Age Standardization and Risk Minimization
When faced with death counts strati ed by age, analysts often calculate a crude mortality rate (CMR) as a single summary measure. This is done by simply dividing total death counts by total population counts. However, the crude mortality rate is not appropriate for comparing different populations du...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38327 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-22580 |