Examining socioeconomic health disparities using a rank-dependent Rényi index

DOI10.1214/15-AOAS822zbMath1454.62492arXiv1509.04889WikidataQ36269347 ScholiaQ36269347MaRDI QIDQ746694

Makram Talih

Publication date: 28 October 2015

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04889

zbMATH Keywords

statistical inferenceRényi divergencesocial welfare functionconcentration curvecomplex survey datahealth surveillance data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Uses Software

• R
• SUDAAN
• Survey
• SEER*Stat

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