Sentence examples for case denominator from inspiring English sources

An offset of the natural log of the person-years was used to account for the case denominator.

Developing novel methods to better characterize the community effects of influenza will be vital to define a more accurate case denominator.

In case denominators prove to be significantly correlated with the outcome of the main study question, an Anova will be performed to identify potential related or independent factors.

5 The most consistent volume-outcome relations have been for procedures such as pancreatectomy and oesophagectomy, probably because they have sufficient case denominators and frequency of measurable adverse events to show differences between providers.

†Not included in the "all typed cases" denominator.

The number of reported cases (numerator) thus increased compared to cases estimated on the basis of pathology-based cases (denominator).

In many cases, denominator data were not included and attributable mortality could not be differentiated from crude mortality.

Problems include "boundary shrinkage," whereby estimates of risk are exaggerated by choice of areas/time periods/demographic strata for study, variable ascertainment or duplication of cases, denominator errors, and publication bias.

Notice that by computing monthly averages, different survival patterns within the same disease phase are taken into account, because individuals contribute to costs (numerator) and cases (denominator) only for the actual number of months they are in a specific phase.

In the first case, the denominator consists of the entire population (i.e. yielding an unconditional probability) while in the second case, the denominator consists of the subset of the population with Parental Education in the lower two categories (i.e. yielding a conditional probability).

In the latter case, the denominator will be lower as fewer parameters will be considered.