Re: st: Age adjusted mortality rates

[Enzo Coviello <enzo.coviello@alice.it>]

At 21.41 03/05/2007, you wrote:
> Marie-Therese Cooney asked:
>
> Can stata calculate age-adjusted mortality rates?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> See:
>     help dstdize
>
> In S Juul: An Introduction To Stata for Health Researchers
> (Stata Press 2006) you find a description, including access
> to various standard populations.

-distrate- is an other useful command that 
computes age-standardized rates with improved confidence intervals

Type

ssc de distrate

and then

ssc install distrate


The help file is provided with a worked example 
that you can run by clicking on the viewer window.

Best wishes

Enzo


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