5. Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analyses for Burden of Disease and Risk Factor Estimates

Table 5.2: Implications of Variation in Choice of Age-Weight Parameter Beta on the Age-Weighting Function

Implications of Variation in Choice of Age-Weight Parameter Beta on the Age-Weighting Function
Age-weight parameter BetaAge-weighta constant CMaximum age weightAge of maximum age weightAge range for which age weight is > 1
0.020.06341.1750.027.2-83.1
0.030.10511.2933.314.9-63.0
0.040.16581.5225.08.4-54.2
0.050.24871.8320.05.2-50.7
0.060.35602.1816.73.5-46.9

Source: Authors' calculations.

Note: This form of presentation was suggested by Mahapatra 2001.

a. For values of Beta other than 0.04, the age-weight constant C was chosen so that total global DALYs(3,1) for 2001 were the same as for Beta = 0.04.

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