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A Windows application for computing standardized mortality ratios and standardized incidence ratios in cohort studies
1Population Based Cancer Registry Bavaria, Registry Office, Erlangen, Germany. karla.geiss@ekr.med.uni-erlangen.de
Abstract:
Standardized mortality ratios and standardized incidence ratios are widely used in cohort studies to compare mortality or incidence in a study population to that in the general population on a age-time-specific basis, but their computation is not included in standard statistical software packages. Here we present a user-friendly Microsoft Windows program for computing standardized mortality ratios and standardized incidence ratios based on calculation of exact person-years at risk stratified by sex, age and calendar time. The program offers flexible import of different file formats for input data and easy handling of general population reference rate tables, such as mortality or incidence tables exported from cancer registry databases. The application of the program is illustrated with two examples using empirical data from the Bavarian Cancer Registry.
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