Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality … individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as predictors of mortality for Germany. Methods: A sub-sample of 3 … in self-rated health on predictions of mortality. Results: We find that, while currently self-rated health is shown to be …

For the problems of nonparametric estimation of nonincreasing and symmetric unimodal density functions with bounded … density classes satisfying some general moment conditions. The method of projections reduces the estimation errors for all … properties of the parent densities. -- error reduction ; Nonparametric density estimation ; monotone density ; symmetric unimodal …

techniques, regression splines and kernel estimation, of which both can be used in the presence of measurement error. Within the … different methods of estimations are used. The first method is the SIMEX algorithm which attempts to estimate the bias, and … ; Bandwidth Selection ; Regression Splines ; Sandwich Estimation …