Risk ratios and Scanlan’s HRX

Abstract Risk ratios are distribution function tail ratios and are widely used in health disparities research. Let A and D denote advantaged and disadvantaged populations with cdfs F A (x) and F D (x) respectively, F A (x)≤F D (x). Consider a selection setting where those selected have x>c a crit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hoben Thomas, Thomas P. Hettmansperger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-11-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications
Subjects:
HRX
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40488-017-0071-6