Selected article for: "age distribution and observed age distribution"

Author: Christian Dudel; Tim Riffe; Enrique Acosta; Alyson A. van Raalte; Mikko Myrskyla
Title: Monitoring trends and differences in COVID-19 case fatality rates using decomposition methods: Contributions of age structure and age-specific fatality
  • Document date: 2020_4_2
  • ID: 6ub9yh27_10
    Snippet: For some of the countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States) age is not available for some confirmed cases or deaths. We imputed the missing age using the observed age distribution of cases or deaths, respectively. Removing these cases from the analysis altogether has no substantive impact on the results, except for Spain, where around 40% of cases and 62% of deaths have no recorded age. Ignoring cases and deaths of unknown age in Spa.....
    Document: For some of the countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States) age is not available for some confirmed cases or deaths. We imputed the missing age using the observed age distribution of cases or deaths, respectively. Removing these cases from the analysis altogether has no substantive impact on the results, except for Spain, where around 40% of cases and 62% of deaths have no recorded age. Ignoring cases and deaths of unknown age in Spain would therefore deflate age-specific case fatality rates.

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