Racial disparities in risks of mortality in a sample of the US Medicare population

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-339

  Zhou, Yijie ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^b   Louis, Thomas A ^c  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical model; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Multiple imputation; Racial disparity; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949518027     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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