Assessing two methods for estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data

摘要

Age-specific ratio ∆ / of the excess mortality (∆ ) and the general mortality ( ). The graph shows the empirical median of ∆ / with 95% confidence bounds (vertical bars) based on the probabilistic sensitivity analysis with 5000 simulation runs. The ratio ∆ / is a lower bound for the mortality rate ratio