Volume 22 - Article 6 | Pages 129–158
Estimation of multi-state life table functions and their variability from complex survey data using the SPACE Program
By Liming Cai, Mark D. Hayward, Yasuhiko Saito, James Lubitz, Aaron Hagedorn, Eileen Crimmins
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