Table 1.
Summary Statistics
| Sample average | Standard deviation | |
|---|---|---|
| Time-varying characteristicsa | ||
| Age | 83.40 | 5.86 |
| TTDB | 4.97b | 4.14 |
| TTDD | 13.2%b | |
| High blood pressure | 56.9% | |
| Cancer | 17.5% | |
| Lung disease | 9.6% | |
| Heart disease | 36.9% | |
| Stroke | 16.0% | |
| Arthritis | 63.8% | |
| Current smoker | 5.6% | |
| Widowed | 51.6% | |
| Fixed characteristicsc | ||
| Female | 61.6% | |
| Black | 13.2% | |
| Hispanic | 5.4% | |
| Ever smoked | 52.0% | |
| College degree | 11.2% | |
| Less than high school | 44.7% | |
Notes. TTD = time to death.
aAveraged over pooled sample of 26,108 person-wave observations; TTDB = TTD conditional on TTD ≤ 15; TTDD = 1 if TTD > 15.
bAveraged over 20 multiply imputed values for each person-wave observation.
cAveraged over 6,214 individuals.