A process that involves selecting a standard population and then applying the rates from the populations under comparison (the observed populations) to establish new rates that would be expected from the standard population is known as ____.

A. comparing rates as ratios
B. comparing rates as differences
C. indirect adjustment
D. direct adjustment


Answer: D

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