Sample designs for measuring the health of small racial/ethnic subgroups

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 4016-4029

  Elliott, Marc N ^a   Finch, Brian K ^b   Klein, David ^a   Ma, Sai ^c   Do, D Phuong ^d   Beckett, Megan K ^a   Orr, Nathan ^a   Lurie, Nicole ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Chinese; Federal surveys; Health disparities; Multiple frame techniques; National Health Interview Survey

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIAN; INTERVIEW; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; RACE; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 50849125726     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3244     Document Type: Article

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