Statistical modelling: the old standardisation problem in disguise?
Jan Paul Vandenbroucke · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 1989
The debate about the relative merits of direct and indirect standardisation was started by Yule in 1934;1 it was mentioned in passing by a few others2 3 and recently revitalised by Miettinen.4It is now firmly settled in prominent textbooks on epidemiology.-7