Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy
Abstract Background A relative survival approach is often used in population-based cancer studies, where other cause (or expected) mortality is assumed to be the same as the mortality in the general population, given a specific covariate pattern. The population mortality is assumed to be known (fixe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01597-7 |