The age of death was obtained from a Gumbell distribution based on demographic tables for the UK Officee for National Statistics) and a relative risk corresponding to the life style parameters of the simulated individual.
The optimal screening strategies for diabetes in terms of sensitivity, specificity, and cost may vary among different populations based on demographics and other risk factors for diabetes.
Approach 2 estimated relative per capita need for health services based on demographics, multiple indicators of need (e.g., measures of health status, X), and interactions between need variables and age (A and X), with adjustment for non-need factors (Z).
The proposed scheme was compared with a population-based controller, i.e. a controller only utilizing models based on demographic covariates for its tuning.
Pollsters correct for this by weighting their results based on demographics such as gender, age, race and level of education.
The number of births is based on demographic projections for the country.
We built an urban contact network model with 2,000 households with an average household size of 2.6 (5,154 persons) based on demographic information for the Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
The prevalence of chlamydia in the whole target population was estimated by extrapolation from positivity rates among participants by weighting based on demographic data available for all invitees and an estimate of people being sexually active.
Leaks of pre-release tracking (early estimates based on demographic analysis) to the press, as for The Da Vinci Code, have become common practice.
