Thinking outside the curve, part II: modeling fetal-infant mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Greater epidemiologic understanding of the relationships among fetal-infant mortality and its prognostic factors, including birthweight, could have vast public health implications. A key step toward that understanding is a realistic and tractable framework for analyzing birthweight distributions and fetal-infant mortality. The present paper is the second of a two-part series that introduces such a framework.

Methods

We propose estimating birthweight-specific mortality within each component of a normal mixture model representing a birthweight distribution, the number of components having been determined from the data rather than fixed a priori.

Results

We address a number of methodological issues related to our proposal, including the construction of confide

SUBMITTER: Charnigo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2936298 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature