Disparities in defining disparities: Statistical conceptual frameworks
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Disparities in defining disparities: statistical conceptual frameworks.
Motivated by the need to meaningfully implement the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) definition of health care disparity, this paper proposes statistical frameworks that lay out explicitly the needed causal assumptions for defining disparity measures. Our key emphasis is that a scientifically defensible disparity measure must take into account the direction of the causal relationship between all...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistics in Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0277-6715,1097-0258
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3283