Tutorial 1: Getting Started
The website home page is: DeathRiskRankings.org. The home page provides basic information on the site and links to background information on data sources and interpretation of query results. The concept of a MicroMort – a one-in-a-million chance of dying – is critical to understanding the outputs. The second tutorial explains the MicroMort concept in detail.
Figure 1-1: Homepage
There are eight tabs across the top of each page of the website:
- Home: The website home page shown in Figure 1-1
- Death Comparisons: The page where users query death statistics from the underlying database. This is where you do your searches and where the output is displayed. Figure 1-2 provides an example.
- Underlying Data: Information about the source data provided by the system.
- Calculations: An explanation of calculations source and methods.
- Tutorial: Basic guidelines for using the system and discussion of some fundamental issues, including interpretation of the data. There are seven tutorials
- Getting started
- What is a MicroMort?
- Searching using one variable
- Searching using two variables
- Customizing searches
- Manipulating output information
- Simpson’s Paradox
- About This Project: A description of the project and its genesis.
- Contact Us: Contact information if you have questions or would like to provide constructive feedback.
- Other Calculators: Links to sites that have life-expectancy calculators.
Figure 1-2: Death Comparisons