Relative index of inequality: Definition, estimation, and inference

Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-224

  Sergeant, Jamie C ^a   Firth, David ^b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cross validation; Health inequality; Interval censored covariate; Penalized likelihood; Slope index; Smoothing spline

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 33645573856     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxj002     Document Type: Article

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