Statistical methods in health disparity research

Author(s)

• Rao, J. Sunil

Bibliographic Information

Statistical methods in health disparity research

J. Sunil Rao

（Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series）

CRC Press, 2023

First edition

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:"A "health disparity" refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one group relative to another due to age, income, race, etc. This will focus on estimation, classical approaches, quantification of disparity, formal modelling, to modern approaches with more flexible computational approaches"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents of Works

• Basic concepts
• Overall estimation of health disparities
• Domain-specific estimates
• Causality, moderation and mediation
• Machine learning based approaches to disparity estimation
• Health disparity estimation under a precision medicine paradigm
• Extended topics.

Details

• NCID: BD04590604
• ISBN:
  • 9780367635121
  • 9780367635169
• LCCN: 2022061985
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boca Raton
• Pages/Volumes: 279pages 24cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA408.5
  • DC23 : 362.1072/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Health status indicators
  • LCSH : Health services accessibility -- Research -- Statistical methods
  • LCSH : Health surveys -- Methodology