494 F. Supp. 2d 21 - Taylor v. Airco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
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“SMR, or standardized mortality ratio, in epidemiology is the ratio of observed deaths to expected deaths according to a specific health outcome in a population. The calculation used to determine the SMR is simple: number of observed deaths/number of expected deaths. The SMR may be quoted as either a ratio or a percentage. If the SMR is quoted as a ratio and is equal to 1.0, then this means the number of observed deaths equals that of expected cases. If higher than 1.0, then there is a higher number of deaths than would be expected under normal circumstances. Similarly, an SMR of 100 would mean that the risk in the study population is equal to that of the general population. For example, an SMR of 641 represents a relative risk of dying from a particular cancer that is 6.4 times greater than that of the general population.”
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