DISTRATE: Stata module to compute direct standardized rates with improved confidence interval

Enzo Coviello ()
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Enzo Coviello: Dipartimento di Prevenzione Az. USL Ba/1

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: distrate estimates directly standardized rates and confidence intervals based on the gamma distribution as proposed by Fay and Feuer (1997). Tiwari, Clegg and Zou (2006) modified the formula of the upper confidence limit showing by simulations that this modified gamma confidence interval performs better than the gamma interval of Fay and Feuer and the other intervals. This method produces valid confidence intervals even when the number of cases is very small.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.0
Keywords: directly standardized rate; confidence interval; gamma distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-03-16, Revised 2017-09-28
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install distrate". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/d/distrate_example.ado example program (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/y/year2000st.dta sample data file (application/x-stata)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/SuffolkCounty.dta sample data file (application/x-stata)

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