| Type ofStatistics |
Inter-wave intervals |
| |
1998 – 2000 |
2000 – 2002 |
2002 – 2004 |
2004 – 2006 |
2006 – 2008 |
| |
Predicted death rates generated from the full mixed-effects model |
| Death rate |
0.075 |
0.169 |
0.259 |
0.294 |
0.254 |
| Standard error |
0.043 |
0.087 |
0.119 |
0.128 |
0.118 |
| |
Predicted death rates generated from the retransformation method |
| Death rate |
0.075 |
0.168 |
0.258 |
0.291 |
0.252 |
| Standard error |
0.043 |
0.086 |
0.118 |
0.128 |
0.117 |
| |
Predicted death rates generated from the best linear unbiased predictor |
| Death rate |
0.064 |
0.146 |
0.227 |
0.257 |
0.221 |
| Standard error |
0.012 |
0.024 |
0.034 |
0.037 |
0.034 |
| |
Predicted death rates generated from the reduced fixed-effects model |
| Death rate |
0.073 |
0.152 |
0.220 |
0.238 |
0.194 |
| Standard error |
0.002 |
0.003 |
0.005 |
0.005 |
0.008 |
|
| Note: Except the first model, all other methods in Table 2 are based on "reduced" (misspecified) models. |
| Table 2: Predicted inter-waves death rates and standard errors at five longitudinal intervals from 1998 to 2008: AHEAD longitudinal survey (N=7,480). |
