The Open Demography Journal

2008, 1 : 15-17
Published online 2008 December 23. DOI: 10.2174/1874918600801010015
Publisher ID: TODEMOJ-1-15

Some Issues on Application of Standardization and Decomposition Analysis

Jichuan Wang
Children Research Institute (CRI), Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC), The George Washington University School of Medicine, 111 Michigan Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010, USA.

ABSTRACT

This article is to 1) address some issues when multiple populations and/or sample uncertainty are involved in application of standardization and decomposition analysis (SDA); and 2) introduce a computer program that provides opportunity of dealing with such issues.