Which of the following is used to compare the death rates of two different populations?
If we want to compare the death rates of two populations with different age composition, the crude death rate is not a right yardstick.Age standardization removes the confounding effect of different age structures and yields a single standardized or adjusted rateref:park&;s textbook,ed23,pg 58
Crude death rate
Age specific death rate
Age standardized death rate
Propoional moality rate
Epidemiology