Improved Monte Carlo methods for estimating confidence intervals for eleven commonly used health disparity measures.

Health disparities are commonplace and of broad interest to policy makers, but are also challenging to measure and communicate. The Health Disparity Calculator software (HD*Calc, v1.2.4) offers Monte Carlo simulation (MCS)-based confidence interval (CI) estimation of eleven disparity measures. The M...

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Main Authors: Jaeil Ahn, Sam Harper, Mandi Yu, Eric J Feuer, Benmei Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219542