ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF INCLUDING VARIATION IN GENERAL POPULATION MORTALITY ON STANDARD ERRORS OF RELATIVE SURVIVAL AND LOSS IN LIFE EXPECTANCY

Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy

Abstract Background A relative survival approach is often used in population-based cancer studies, where other cause (or expected) mortality is assumed to be the same as the mortality in the general population, given a specific covariate pattern.The population mortality is assumed to be known (fixed), i.e.measured without uncertainty.This could hav

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THE CONCEPT OF FATE IN AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE

The present article is dedicated to the problem of the concept of fate functioning in the American picture of the world.The aim of the article is to investigate the concept sphere of fate in American science-fiction literature.The main tasks are to outline the main specific approaches to the problem, to analyse synonymic rows of the concept of fate

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Prediction of Weld Deformations by Numerical Methods - Review

The welding process is the basic technique of joining in the shipbuilding industry.This method generates welding distortions that cause a lot of problems during the Accessories hat manufacturing process due to both the time and cost of straightening as well as their influence on later stages of production.Proper preparation of welding processes pla

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