Figure 1.

Survival curves for 4 sex/race strata in 4 sites of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study, 1979–1983 through 2007. Nonparametric Kaplan-Meier curves as step functions and smoothed curves for the generalized gamma (GG) distribution for cumulative proportion deceased in g groups according to nonblack/black race and female/male sex. The estimated parameters of GG models were: GG(4.10, 0.16, 1.86) for nonblack women, GG(3.99, 0.21, 1.53) for nonblack men, GG(4.11, 0.19, 2.23) for black women, and GG(3.97, 0.28, 1.87) for black men.