Johnson, Elizabeth; Brookmeyer, Ron; Ziegler-Graham, Kathryn - In: International Journal of Biostatistics 3 (2007) 1, pp. 1083-1083
Mortality rate ratios and the associated proportional hazards models have been used to summarize the effect of Alzheimer's disease on longevity. However, the mortality rate ratios vary by age and therefore do not provide a simple parsimonious summary of the effect of the disease on lifespan....