Generating health estimates by zip code: A semiparametric small area estimation approach using the California health interview survey

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2534-2540

  Wang, Yueyan ^a   Ponce, Ninez A ^a,c   Wang, Pan ^a   Opsomer, Jean D ^b   Yu, Hongjian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CALIFORNIA; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84946730972     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302810     Document Type: Review

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