UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION STATISTICS

University Registration Statistics.

Reengineering Vital Registration and Statistics Systems

In his timely essay, " Reengineering Vital Registration and Statistics Systems for the United States, " Charles J. Rothwell raises important issues about the registration of vital events in the United States (1). There is no question about the value of taking advantage of electronic technology to improve the quality and increase the utility of the registration system. The partnership mentioned ...

The University of Chicago Department of Statistics

The year 2000 U. S. Census has been inundated by political and legal controversy. This talk will survey the current plans for Census 2000 from my perspective as a statistician. From this perspective the viability and desirability of these plans will be discussed. Some relevant evidence in this regard will be cited from the 1990 census and from the 1998 Dress Rehearsal census.

The University of Chicago Department of Statistics

It is well known that the number of modes of a kernel density estimator is monotone nonincreasing in the bandwidth if the kernel is a Gaussian density. There is numerical evidence of nonmonotonicity in the case of some non-Gaussian kernels, but little additional information is available. The present paper provides theoretical and numerical descriptions of the extent to which the number of modes...

Reengineering Vital Registration and Statistics Systems for the United States

For more than a hundred years, the United States has operated a decentralized vital statistics system as an essential component of public health. Statistics based on births and deaths registered in the United States are a primary source of data used to track health status, to plan, implement, and evaluate health and social services, and to set health policy. The national vital statistics system...