by Siu-Fai Leung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-81). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Mortality and Socioeconomic Status --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Plan and Difficulties Encountered in the Study --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Imputation and File Merging --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Structure and Contents of Data Sets --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Imputation of Missing Values --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3 --- Merging Data Sets --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Merging Death Data and Census Data --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Merging Two Census Data Sets --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Final Data Set Used in Modeling --- p.31 / Chapter 3 --- Modeling and Estimation --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1 --- Discrete-Time Hazard Function Analysis --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- The Hazard Function --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Logistic Regression --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2 --- Application of Discrete-Time Hazard Model on the Death Data Set --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Preparing the Person-Period Data Set --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Modeling the Person-Period Data Set --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3 --- Combining Results from different imputed data sets --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4 --- Estimation of Cell Probabilities --- p.51 / Chapter 4 --- Model Adequacy Checking --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Definition of Residuals in Multiple Imputation --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2 --- Residual Analysis of The Cancer Mortality Model --- p.59 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.63 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Cancer Mortality --- p.63 / Chapter 5.2 --- Competing Risk --- p.68 / Chapter 5.3 --- Discussion --- p.72 / Appendix A: Coding Description of District --- p.75 / Appendix B: Results of the Heart Diseases Mortality Model --- p.76 / Bibliography --- p.80

Liu Agnes Tat Fong. / "June 1999." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.