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Biostatistics Using JMP
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Biostatistics Using JMP

by Trevor Bihl
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
8h 39m
English
SAS Institute
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Chapter 6: Rates, Proportions, and Epidemiology

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Rates

6.2.1 Crude Rates

6.2.2 Adjusted Rates

6.3 Geographic Visualizations

6.3.1 National Visualizations

6.3.2 County and Lower Level Visualizations

6.4 References

6.1 Introduction

Epidemiology involves determining both how and why health issues arise and where they are distributed (e.g., geographically (van Belle, Fisher, Heagerty, & Lumley, 2004) (Daniel & Cross, 2013)). Central to this task are rates, contingency tables, and proportions. Rates are used to standardize values to a common scale (e.g., incidences per 100,000 people) and are examined across age or geographic ranges or both. Not only are generating and presenting tables important, but creating geographical figures ...

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