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... population of the United States . proportion of children in our population is decreasing while the proportion of older persons is increasing . This is well shown in the accompanying graph . * With this marked change in the age ...
... population of the United States . proportion of children in our population is decreasing while the proportion of older persons is increasing . This is well shown in the accompanying graph . * With this marked change in the age ...
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... populations . The simplest plan to ar- rive at such corrected death rates is to apply all the specific death rates to the same standard population . For convenience , statisticians often take as their standard the population of England ...
... populations . The simplest plan to ar- rive at such corrected death rates is to apply all the specific death rates to the same standard population . For convenience , statisticians often take as their standard the population of England ...
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... population . We may therefore define the corrected or standardized death rate as the rate which would have prevailed in the standard population if the specific death rates in its several age groups had been the same as those in the ...
... population . We may therefore define the corrected or standardized death rate as the rate which would have prevailed in the standard population if the specific death rates in its several age groups had been the same as those in the ...
Contents
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMPORTANT NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS | 5 |
CHAPTER | 32 |
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