Improving disparity estimates for rare racial/ethnic groups with trend estimation and kalman filtering: An application to the national health interview survey

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1622-1639

  Elliott, Marc N ^a   McCaffrey, Daniel F ^a   Finch, Brian K ^b   Klein, David J ^c   Orr, Nate ^a   Beckett, Megan K ^a   Lurie, Nicole ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; Borrowing strength; Chinese; Cross sectional data; Health disparities

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ASIAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69749128209     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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