“It has been claimed (Ohsfeldt and Schneider, 2006) that adjusting for the higher death rate from accident or injury in the United States over 1980-99 than the OECD average would increase US life expectancy at birth…
This is untrue. Ohsfeldt and Schneider did not 'remove fatal injuries from life expectancy data', they used a regression analysis to adjust life expectancy values to equalise the number of fatal injuries. They have not…
“It has been claimed (Ohsfeldt and Schneider, 2006) that adjusting for the higher death rate from accident or injury in the United States over 1980-99 than the OECD average would increase US life expectancy at birth…
This is untrue. Ohsfeldt and Schneider did not 'remove fatal injuries from life expectancy data', they used a regression analysis to adjust life expectancy values to equalise the number of fatal injuries. They have not…