EPI5.7: STANDARDIZATION:DON'T PANIC!
 

STANDARDISATION: DON'T PANIC!

  DIRECT INDIRECT
Reference population supplies Age distribution Age specific rates
Index population supplies Age specific rates Age distribution
Calculate Age adjusted rates Expected number of cases
Calculate ratio Standardised rate ratio (SRR) Standardised morbidity or mortality ratio:
SMR = # observed /# expected

Interactive Examples

The Examples listed below have been included in order to illustrate the concepts discussed in this Section.
Question 1 Question 3 Question 5
Question 2 Question 4  




Creative Commons License
General Introduction to Occupational Health: Occupational Hygiene, Epidemiology & Biostatistics by Prof Jonny Myers is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License
.