A method of mortality analysis: application to breast cancer.
A regression analysis of mortality can benefit from the introduction of certain apparently redundant factors. Following a description of the method of calculating the regression coefficients, data on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales for 1951-1970 are analysed as a function of age group, quinquennium of birth and quinquennium of death.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D004739:England; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014852:Wales