title: Estimation of infant mortality rates categorized by social class for an Australian population.
abstract: "This paper reports a method of deriving simultaneous confidence intervals for [Australian] infant mortality rates based on a birth sample rather than the birth population.  The large sample size employed enables the use of asymptotic multivariate techniques....[The authors find that] where the population distribution of a characteristic such as social class is not known, confidence intervals can be estimated for rates based on the distribution of this characteristic in a sample of that population."
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D007226:Infant Mortality; D009026:Mortality; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Australia; Cohort Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Estimation Technics; Infant Mortality; Mortality; Oceania; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status