The Lexis diagram, a misnomer
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Age-period-cohort models for the Lexis diagram.
Analysis of rates from disease registers are often reported inadequately because of too coarse tabulation of data and because of confusion about the mechanics of the age-period-cohort model used for analysis. Rates should be considered as observations in a Lexis diagram, and tabulation a necessary reduction of data, which should be as small as possible, and age, period and cohort should be trea...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2001.4.3