Brian Rostron

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/14/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.14

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Abstract

Preston, Glei, and Wilmoth (2010) recently proposed an innovative regression-based method to estimate smoking-attributable mortality in developed countries based on observed lung cancer death rates. Their estimates for females, however, differ appreciably from some published estimates. This article presents a modified version of the Preston, Glei, and Wilmoth method that includes an age-period interaction term in its model. This modified version produces improved estimates of smoking-attributable mortality that are consistent with results from a modified version of the Peto-Lopez indirect method.

Author's affiliation
Brian Rostron
University of California at Berkeley, United States of America

Keywords
life expectancy, mortality, smoking

Word count (Main text)
4269

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