OBJECTIVE To analyze health care disparities in pediatric quality of care measures and determine the impact of data imputation. DATA SOURCES Five HEDIS measures are calculated based on 2012 administrative data for 145,652 children in two public insurance programs in Florida. METHODS The Bayesian Improved Surname and Geocoding (BISG) imputation method is used to impute missing race and ethni...

The repeated-pair (RP) approach to surnames in married couples is a measure of population subdivision resulting from the influence of lineagelike behavior in mate choice. An excess of RP over random RP implies limitations in mate choice and a reduction of genetic variability. Here we apply the RP method to data from the rural populations of Csaroda, Tiszaadony, and Tiszavid in northeastern Hung...

We examine surname distribution, origin, and association with Y-chromosome haplogroups in native communities from the Aleutian archipelago. The underlying hypothesis is that surnames and Y-chromosome haplogroups should be associated because both are paternally inherited markers. We used Lasker's coefficient of relationship through isonymy (R(ib) ) to identify the distribution of 143 surnames in...

This paper studies the effect of social closure on crime and tax evasion rates using disaggregated data for Italian municipalities. It measures the degree of social openness of a community by the diversity of its surname distribution, which reflects the history of migration and inbreeding. It shows that, all else equal, communities with a history of social closure have lower crime rates and hig...

We study two general approaches how to describe spin one particles, using vector and antisymmetric tensor fields within RχT. In this paper we focus on the question of an equivalence of both ways. The appearing problems lead us to the introduction of a new type of the description the first order formalism which naturally connects both traditional formalisms. Moreover, it gives a more general res...

Surnames and non-recombining alleles are inherited from a single parent in a highly similar way. A simple birth-death model with mutations can accurately describe this process. Exponentially growing and constant populations are investigated, and we study how different compositions of the founder populations can be observed in present-day diversity distributions. We analyse different quantities ...

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This paper reports on a preliminary investigation of surname distributions as a measure long run social mobility. In England this suggests two surprising claims. First, England, all the way from the heart of the Middle Ages in 1200 to 2009, is a society without persistent social classes, at least among the descendants of the medieval population. It was a world of complete social mobility, with ...

A challenge, visualization is often faced with, is the complex structure of scientific data. Complexity can arise in various ways, from high dimensionalities of domains and ranges, time series of measurements, ensemble simulations, to heterogeneous collections of data, such as combinations of measured and simulated data. Many of these complexities can be subsumed under a concept of multifields,...

Family background-kinship-can propagate careers. The evidence for academic nepotism is littered with complex associations and disputed causal inferences. Surname clustering, albeit with very careful consideration of surnames' flows across regions and time periods, can be used to reflect family ties. We examined surname patterns in the health science literature, by country, across five decades. ...