MISLEADING MORTALITY STATISTICS ON TUBERCULOSIS

mortality forecasting based on lee-carter model

over the past decades a number of approaches have been applied for forecasting mortality. in 1992, a new method for long-run forecast of the level and age pattern of mortality was published by lee and carter. this method was welcomed by many authors so it was extended through a wider class of generalized, parametric and nonlinear model. this model represents one of the most influential recent d...

Differences among official statistics of mortality rates in Iran

Dear Editor, Death indicators and causes of death are both closely associated with socio-cultural, economic, and structural factors and determinants of health, with all of which being at the core of the planning, monitoring, and assessment of intervention programs in any healthcare system (1). In Iran, the diagnosis and official registration of deaths are carried out by two independent organiz...

Misleading statistics: errors in textbooks, software and manuals.

Statistics is an essential tool in medicine in general and in medical research in particular. This is shown by the large number of articles on statistical topics carried by medical journals, by the demand for consultancy from medical statisticians and by the number of textbooks in medical statistics, especially introductory texts, now on the market. Yet, despite this importance and wealth of ad...

Rebuttal to editorial saying cancer survival statistics are misleading.

In this rebuttal letter byMichel P Coleman and colleagues (BMJ 2011;343:d4214, doi:10.1136/bmj.d4214), the authors quote from Beral and Peto’s original editorial (BMJ 2010;341:c4112, doi:10.1136/bmj.c4112). In the full text, online version of their letter, the italic emphasis that Coleman and colleagues had added to certain parts of this quotation was lost (because the whole quotation was publi...

Trends on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality.