Taylor van Doren

Contributor

NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Circumpolar Health Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage

Areas of Interest

Health & Mortality, Historical Demography, Demographic Methods

The Download

Knowing and understanding change: Methods insights using historical pandemic data

Pandemic diseases, like COVID-19, have far-reaching effects that are difficult to identify or predict during the course of the pandemic itself. Case numbers and mortality due to pandemic diseases ebb and flow, but even after time has passed, it is useful to know (1) when the waves occurred, (2) if…

Taylor van Doren

The Denominator

Estimating time points of significant change in cause-specific mortality: Joinpoint regression in R

Those engaged in demographic research are often interested in how and why the vital demographic processes (fertility, mortality, and migration) change in response to certain ecological, cultural, or behavioral stimuli. Today, in the midst of a global pandemic event, epidemiologists and…

Taylor van Doren

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