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Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (Propensity Score) using the Military Health System Data Repository and National Death Index
Published on: January 8, 2020
Analysing the difference due to risk and demographic factors for incidence or mortality
1Service de Biostatistique, Batiment 1M, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, 165 Chemin du Grand Revoyet, 69495 Pierre-Benite, France.
Background:
From an epidemiological and public health perspective there is an interest in quantifying differences in incidence and mortality between either time points, geographical areas or males and females. We propose a method for splitting such a difference in the number of cases/deaths into three components: (1) those due to risk; (2) those due to population structure (i.e. age distribution); and (3) those due to population size. We also propose graphical methods for presenting the results. Three examples are used to illustrate our methodology.
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