{"id":426,"date":"2005-12-04T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=426"},"modified":"2005-12-04T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T19:16:13","slug":"how-to-use-variable-rate-stuff-in-individual-level-analyses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"How to use variable-rate stuff in individual-level analyses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading is the theme for me for the last week&#151;reading student work, a minor truckload of submissions that came in recently for <a href=\"http:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\">EPAA<\/a>, and some other stuff. In about an hour, I&#8217;ll drive down to where my children are in the last chess tournament for the year, so there isn&#8217;t enough time to get into the databases I just got permission to use (or rather, an IRB exemption because they&#8217;re anonymous data).<br \/>\nBut after writing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000347.html\">growth<\/a> earlier this week (if this is the end of the week), I&#8217;ve been thinking about the use of so-called variable-rate demographic models for populations.  (See that entry&#8217;s reference to a Preston et al. text, which has the relevant citations.  Yes, I took several courses from Sam Preston at Penn. He&#8217;s a very smart mortality expert, and I love taking advantage of his and others&#8217; work.)<br \/>\nCan I use that same principle for analyzing individual-level data? Is it possible to take population-based information on age-varying rates for a parameter (say, school attendance) and use that in an analysis of cross-sectional data (e.g., the annual current population survey), to partially eliminate the conflation of age- and cohort-related effects on the item of interest?<br \/>\nOnce again, an idea hits at the end of a semester.  Ai!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading is the theme for me for the last week&#151;reading student work, a minor truckload of submissions that came in recently for EPAA, and some other stuff. In about an hour, I&#8217;ll drive down to where my children are in the last chess tournament for the year, so there isn&#8217;t enough time to get into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}