Explanation:
Direct standardization uses the study population's age-specific death rates applied to the standard population's age structure; thus, only the study population's age-specific rates are needed.
Explanation:
Geometric mean requires all positive values; otherwise it's undefined or zero. Harmonic mean also requires non-zero values, but GM is more restricted. Actually, GM is defined only for positive data if we want real numbers. So C.
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