Inter-observer agreement on subjects' race and race-informative characteristics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Edgar, Heather J H ^a,b   Daneshvari, Shamsi ^b   Harris, Edward F ^c   Kroth, Philip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL INDICATOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FACIES; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; NEGRO; OBSERVER VARIATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SKIN COLOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; MALE; RACE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 80052279742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023986     Document Type: Article

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