PHEindicatormethods
CRANPHEindicatormethodsMaRDI QIDQ72069
Common Public Health Statistics and their Confidence Intervals
Last update: 25 January 2024
Software version identifier: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 1.0.8, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.5, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 2.0.2
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Functions to calculate commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals using methods approved for use in the production of Public Health England indicators such as those presented via Fingertips (<http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/>). It provides functions for the generation of proportions, crude rates, means, directly standardised rates, indirectly standardised rates, standardised mortality ratios, slope and relative index of inequality and life expectancy. Statistical methods are referenced in the following publications. Breslow NE, Day NE (1987) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780080614>. Dobson et al (1991) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780100317>. Armitage P, Berry G (2002) <doi:10.1002/9780470773666>. Wilson EB. (1927) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1927.10502953>. Altman DG et al (2000, ISBN: 978-0-727-91375-3). Chiang CL. (1968, ISBN: 978-0-882-75200-6). Newell C. (1994, ISBN: 978-0-898-62451-9). Eayres DP, Williams ES (2004) <doi:10.1136/jech.2003.009654>. Silcocks PBS et al (2001) <doi:10.1136/jech.55.1.38>. Low and Low (2004) <doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh175>.
- Statistical methods in cancer research. Volume II. The design and analysis of cohort studies. N. E. Breslow and N. E. Day, Oxford University Press for International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1987. No of pages: xii + 406. Price: £30
- Confidence intervals for weighted sums of poisson parameters
- Statistical Methods in Medical Research
- Probable Inference, the Law of Succession, and Statistical Inference
- Evaluation of methodologies for small area life expectancy estimation
- Life expectancy as a summary of mortality in a population: statistical considerations and suitability for use by health authorities
- Measuring the gap: quantifying and comparing local health inequalities
