منابع مشابه
The measurement of occupational mortality.
In making comparisons of the mortality of different occupational groups, it is essential to allow for differences in the age distributions of the groups. The principle of "standardizing" for age is long established. Each of the two conventional methods, direct and indirect, leads to a "Standardized Mortality Ratio" (S.M.R.) which is a weighted average of the ratios of the death rates, by ages, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591575905200609