PPT Slide
Retrospective cross sectional analysis of a population cohort.
National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set. 6
- numerator - all 1999 US infant deaths linked to
corresponding birth certificates.
- denominator - all 1999 US births.
Data selection, filtering, tabulation, etc. - using SETS (Statistical
Export & Tabulation System), provided with the data set.
Finite population, almost no sampling error, differences essentially
“significant”, confidence intervals developed.
- 586,000 singleton births to African-American mothers.
- 12-30 years with at least 100 births in index year.
- birth order from 1st to 21st birth.