Volume III - 1997 No. 6, Nov/Dec: Special Issue: NHANES III No. 5, Sep/Oct: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Regression toward the mean Q&A: EDSC databases SETS for Windows FERRET No. 4, Jul/Aug: Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA) Repeated measures Q&A: Clinical Classifications for Health Policy Research Atlas of United States Mortality No. 3, May/Jun: Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial Database (ONTT) Sample size Q&A: EDSC printed reports NCHS conference No. 2, Mar/Apr: HCUP-3 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Life tables and survival analysis Q&A: Cause of death information CDC Wonder No. 1, Jan/Feb: Firearm Injury Reporting System Database (FIRS) Errors in hypothesis testing and the effect of multiple comparisons Q&A: NHANES III/Block level census data New NCHS website
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