Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

ACS 403 — Mortality Analysis

ACS department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

compute crude death rates and standard mortality ratios
differentiate between mortality and morbidity
develop good skills for constructing decrement tables
compute and compare mortality experiences using both direct and indirect standardization; and
ability to apply certain techniques of probability, statistics and stochastic processes for the modeling and forecasting of mortality trends

Course contents

Mortality measures used in vital statistics. Standard Mortality Ratio (SMR). Direct and indirect standardization. Prevalence and incidences of disease. Estimation of crude mortality rates. Construction of mortality table. Comparison of mortality experiences. Construction of multiple decrement table. Construction of abridged table.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study ACS 403.

ACS 403 — Mortality Analysis

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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