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A comment on selecting sample sizes and discrete observation times for longitudinal mortality studies: Effects of skewed distributions for mortality times
Author(s) -
Hines R. J. O'Hara,
Hines W. G. S.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
environmetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-095X
pISSN - 1180-4009
DOI - 10.1002/env.3170050108
Subject(s) - skewness , statistics , sample size determination , econometrics , mathematics , sample (material) , distribution (mathematics) , demography , physics , mathematical analysis , sociology , thermodynamics
This note extends previously published results on selecting sample sizes and discrete observation times for longitudinal mortality studies to consider the effect of skewness in the distribution of mortality times.