Adjustment factors in mortality statistics. A word of caution
Halliday, M.L.; Anderson, T.W.
JAMA 238(19): 2025-2026
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0098-7484 PMID: 578898 Document Number: 115243
Single adjustment factors are a form of crude statistics that are useful for adjusting overall death rates, but they may be quite inappropriate when applied to age, sex, race or other specific subgroups.
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