Estimating the empirical Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient in the presence of error with nested data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3191-3208

  Moskowitz, Chaya S ^a   Seshan, Venkatraman E ^b   Riedel, Elyn R ^a   Begg, Colin B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration; Distribution; Hierarchical data; Inequality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA ANALYSIS; GINI COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LORENZ CURVE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOM ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MEDICARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48049100348     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3151     Document Type: Article

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