Assessing socioeconomic effects on different sized populations: To weight or not to weight?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 913-920

  Frohlich, N ^a   Carriere, K C ^b   Potvin, L ^c   Black, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ACCURACY; AGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MANITOBA; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0035191520     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.12.913     Document Type: Article

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