Abstract
Standardized mortality ratio (SMR) is a popular index of incidence and mortality from diseases such as cancer. Although SMR is quite reliable to measure relative risk for a large geographical region (e.g., a country), it is unreliable for a small-area (e.g. , a district) . In this paper, we introduce an empirical Bayes method to produce an alternative index as well as its measure of uncertainty. An example is provided to demonstrate the method.
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