| Main Title |
Analyzing Cohort Mortality Data. |
| Author |
Whittemore, A. S. ;
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| CORP Author |
Stanford Univ., CA. School of Medicine.;Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC.;National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.;National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. |
| Year Published |
1985 |
| Report Number |
EPA-R-811151; EPA/600/J-85/507; |
| Stock Number |
PB88-140413 |
| Additional Subjects |
Mortality ;
Statistical analysis ;
Poisson density functions ;
Vector analysis ;
Occupational diseases ;
Regression analysis ;
Morbidity ;
Toxicology ;
Epidemiology ;
Analysis(Mathematics) ;
Mathematical models ;
Reprints ;
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| Holdings |
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| NTIS |
PB88-140413 |
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07/26/2022 |
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| Collation |
7p |
| Abstract |
Several methods for analyzing data from mortality studies of occupationally or environmentally exposed cohorts are shown to be special cases of a single procedure. The procedure assumes a proportional hazards model for exposure effects and represents the log-likelihood kernel for the data as that of N independent Poisson variates, where N is the total number of person-units of mortality observation time in the study. It formalizes and justifies the epidemiological techniques of classifying deaths and person-months of study time into categories defined by exposure and other covariates, and of computing standardized mortality ratios and indirectly standardized death rates. Parameters representing exposure effects can be estimated by using standard software packages. Special cases and applications are described in the context of lung cancer mortality among U.S. uranium miners. (Copyright (c) 1985 American Statistical Association.) |
| Supplementary Notes |
Pub. in American Statistician, v39 n4 pt2 p437-441 Nov 85. Sponsored by Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD., and National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. |
| NTIS Title Notes |
Journal article. |
| Title Annotations |
Reprint: Analyzing Cohort Mortality Data. |
| PUB Date Free Form |
c1985 |
| Category Codes |
72F; 44C; 57U; 94D |
| NTIS Prices |
PC A02/MF A01 |
| Document Type |
NT |
| Cataloging Source |
NTIS/MT |
| Control Number |
807117614 |
| Origin |
NTIS |
| Type |
CAT |
