User Documentation Pc Ltas

By Department of Health and Human Services

Book Id: WPLBN0000040368
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	User Documentation Pc Ltas
Author:	Department of Health and Human Services
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Medical research, Medical reports
Collections:	Medical Library Collection
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Publisher:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Citation APA MLA Chicago Health And Human Services, D. O. (n.d.). User Documentation Pc Ltas. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
COPYRIGHTS: PC LTAS was developed by the Division of Surveillance, Hazards Evaluation, and Field Studies (DSHEFS), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and is provided for use by the public health community. Both PC LTAS and this manual are in the public domain and may be freely copied. DISCLAIMER: No warranty is made or implied for use of PC LTAS for any particular purpose. NIOSH assumes no responsibility for any damages incurred by anyone while using PC LTAS or this manual. Trade names are used only for identification or examples; no endorsement of particular products is intended or implied. The use of trade names or trademarks in this manual does NOT imply that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may be used freely by anyone.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction/Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.0 NIOSH Life Table Analyses: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.1 Lagging exposures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2 Proportionate Mortality Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.0 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.1 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.2 File List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.3 Recommended Computer System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.4 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.0 How to Run a Life Table Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 4.1 Required Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 4.2 Using the Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.3 Program Steps for Creating a Life Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.4 Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.5 Project Parameters input screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.6 Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.7 Exit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.0 Verify. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.0 Stratify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 7.0 Analyze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 7.1 Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.2 Report Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.3 Printing Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.4 Select Majors/Minors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 8.0 Utilize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8.1 Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 8.2 Display Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 8.3 Deceased Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 9.0 Parameters and System Features Defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 10.0 Limits of LTAS Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 APPENDIX A. Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 APPENDIX B. Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 APPENDIX C. Export File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 APPENDIX D. Table D-1: Details of fields in the Demographics File . . . . . . . 85 APPENDIX E. Table E-1: Details of fields in the Work History File . . . . . . . 89 APPENDIX F. Table F-1: Details of fields in the Exposure File . . . . . . . . . 91 APPENDIX G. How to build a structure file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 APPENDIX H. Rate File with example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97