A reference-invariant health disparity index based on rényi divergence

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1217-1243

  Talih, Makram ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha gamma divergence; Epidemiological methods; Health inequalities; Rescaled bootstrap; Survey data; Taylor series linearization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879525711     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS621     Document Type: Article

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