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Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy

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 (fixed), i.e....

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Autores principales: Leontyeva, Yuliya, Bower, Hannah, Gauffin, Oskar, Lambert, Paul C, Andersson, Therese M.-L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9059421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35501701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01597-7