The risk of misclassifying subjects within principal component based asset index

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sharker, M A Yushuf ^a   Nasser, Mohammed ^b   Abedin, Jaynal ^a   Arnold, Benjamin F ^c   Luby, Stephen P ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Center for Global Health   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Asset index; Principal component analysis; Socio economic status; Wealth index

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; VARIANCE;

EID: 84902302562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-11-6     Document Type: Review

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