Area compatibility factor
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In survival analysis
, the area compatibility factor, F, is used in indirect standardisation of population mortality rates.
where:
is the standardised central exposed to risk from age x to x + t for the standard population,
is the central exposed to risk from age x to x + t for the population under study and
is the mortality rate in the standard population for ages x to x + t.
F is then multiplied by the crude mortality rate
to arrive at the indirectly standardised mortality rate.
Survival analysis
Survival analysis is a branch of statistics which deals with death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory or reliability analysis in engineering, and duration analysis or duration modeling in economics or sociology...
, the area compatibility factor, F, is used in indirect standardisation of population mortality rates.
where:
is the standardised central exposed to risk from age x to x + t for the standard population, is the central exposed to risk from age x to x + t for the population under study and is the mortality rate in the standard population for ages x to x + t.F is then multiplied by the crude mortality rate
Mortality rate
Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time...
to arrive at the indirectly standardised mortality rate.