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Rates

Rates. STA 220 – Lecture #3. Rates. How do we compare the birth rate of a large country, such as China, with a small country, such as Iceland? How do we compare how much the state of California spends on education versus the amount spent by Wyoming?. Computation of Rates.

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Rates

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  1. Rates STA 220 – Lecture #3

  2. Rates • How do we compare the birth rate of a large country, such as China, with a small country, such as Iceland? • How do we compare how much the state of California spends on education versus the amount spent by Wyoming?

  3. Computation of Rates • Rates are used instead of • Suppose “x” rate we’re interested in was the birth rate of RI in 1999. Suppose that 12,000 babies were born in 1999 and that the population of RI was 1,000,000.

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  5. Computation of Rates • Had we used the constant 10,000 then we would have 120 births per 10,000 • For consistency, the multiple of 1,000 has been adopted as the de facto standard for population rates • When comparing rates,

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  7. Computation of Rates • Population: 1,000,000 • Births: 12,000 • Deaths: 11,000 • Immigrants: 600 • Emigrants: 1,700

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  13. Combining Rates • Suppose you had the following birth rate information for CT and were asked to compute a regional birth rate for both RI and CT, combined. • CT population: 8,000,000 • CT births: 160,000 What is CT’s birth rate?

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  16. Rare Events • In the above rates, multiplying by 1000 generally made the rates meaningful • Suppose the breast cancer death rate is 0.012 per 1,000 women… • Instead • Breast cancer death rate of 12 deaths per 1,000,000 women • Note the rate is now per 1,000,000 because the per “xx” rate corresponds to

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