Evaluation of the National Center for Health Statistics Data Presentation Standards for Rates from Vital Statistics and Sample Surveys

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• Personal Author:
  Talih, Makram ; Irimata, Katherine, E. ; Zhang, Guangyu ; Parker, Jennifer, D.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Public health report presenting confidence intervals used in the standards for rates from vital ; statistics and complex health surveys and evaluating the coverage probability, relative width, and the resulting percentage of rates flagged as statistically unreliable when compared with previously used standards.
• Subjects:
  • Health Surveys
  • Data Collection
  • Epidemiology
  • Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  • gamma confidence interval, log Student’s t confidence interval, statistical reliability, population subgroups, National Vital Statistics System, National Health Care Surveys
• Source:
  National Vital Statistics System
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  30 Pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  198
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/123462/cdc_123462_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.26 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fadbba9e7777abef600bed6680d4738ac7a16b02fd71265d920a509e9ddfd1526cc15fd7546d9e4db7c7c5393890292f7790c93129d78e983d7bfd83af7ef14f