Child restraint systems for young children during motor vehicle collisions.
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Rice and Anderson’s matched cohort study assesses the effect of seat belt and booster seat use on fatality risk among 0–3 year olds using Fatal Accident Reporting System data. We are concerned that their implementation of the method extrapolates far beyond available data, to the point of making comparisons among adults and young children that are not meaningful. The authors use conditional Poisson regression to estimate the effects of different restraint types on risk of death. This model uses a log link to model risk of death Y :
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عنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of public health
دوره 99 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009