Quantifying temporal trends of age-standardized rates with odds

• Main Authors: Chuen Seng Tan (Author), Nathalie Støer (Author), Yilin Ning (Author), Ying Chen (Author), Marie Reilly (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background To quantify temporal trends in age-standardized rates of disease, the convention is to fit a linear regression model to log-transformed rates because the slope term provides the estimated annual percentage change. However, such log-transformation is not always appropriate. Method...