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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2024

A Comparison of Statistical Methods to Construct Confidence Intervals and Fiducial Intervals for Measures of Health Disparities.

Tengfei Li, Anca D Dragomir, George Luta

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Tengfei LiDepartment of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5026-1773
Anca D DragomirDepartment of Oncology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
George LutaDepartment of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4035-7632

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Abstract

Health disparities are differences in health status across different socioeconomic groups. Classical methods, e.g., the Delta method, have been used to estimate the standard errors of estimated measures of health disparities and to construct confidence intervals for these measures. However, the confidence intervals constructed using the classical methods do not have good coverage properties for situations involving sparse data. In this article, we introduce three new methods to construct fiducial intervals for measures of health disparities based on approximate fiducial quantities. Through a comprehensive simulation study, We compare the empirical coverage properties of the proposed fiducial intervals against two Monte Carlo simulation-based methods-utilizing either a truncated Normal distribution or the Gamma distribution-as well as the classical method. The findings of the simulation study advocate for the adoption of the Monte Carlo simulation-based method with the Gamma distribution when a unified approach is sought for all health disparity measures.

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Health InequitiesComputer SimulationConfidence IntervalsMonte Carlo MethodNormal Distributionconfidence intervaldelta methodfiducial inferencefiducial intervalmeasures of health disparitiesMonte Carlo simulation

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