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The index is based on comparing each child with every other child in the population (thus the sum of the differences in the numerator), and gives a large weight to the best and worst off (the differences are raised to the power of three).
If reporting the figure in a final report, it would probably be appropriate to report 313,000 rather than the six figures, but this uncertainty is dwarfed by that of the numerator (on the order of 1 part in 100 or even 1 in 1000, compared to 1 in 10 for the numerator), and so can be ignored in the calculation.
In estimating the relative risk of randomization to screening or no screening, the value of D affects the point estimate because D is added to both the numerator and denominator.
The sampling variance of the estimated effect of receipt of treatment, the variability due to taking a sample from a hypothetical larger population, approximately equals the sampling variance of the numerator, which is a standard calculation, divided by denominator squared.
Conventional cancer incidence rates contain new cases of the disease for a given year in the numerator and the mid-year population in the denominator [ 1 ] . However, this rate is potentially problematic for those cancers in which the denominator includes cases not at-risk of developing the disease [ 2 ] . For example, a large portion of the female population will undergo a hysterectomy in their lifetime [ 2 3 4 ] , removing them from being at risk of developing corpus uterine cancer.