Understanding bias when estimating life expectancy from age at death: a simulation approach applied to Morquio syndrome A

Table 1 True mean and median survival and average estimated mean and median survival across 1000 simulation runs, for each of the 4 simulation scenarios, using both the period and cohort estimation approaches

The true values represent averages over the last 36 years for each scenario. The period and cohort approaches average the corresponding estimates over 1000 simulation runs. The numbers in parentheses represent the standard deviations across the 1000 simulation runs

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