Many studies show that immigrants face significant barriers in accessing health care. These barriers may be particularly pronounced for newer immigrants, who may face additional obstacles in navigating the health care system. Understanding the …
This is the report of the Panel on Survey Options for Estimating the Flow of Unauthorized Crossings at the U.S.-Mexico Border, including myself as a panel member. The summary is below: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for …
In close elections, the losing side has an incentive to obtain evidence that the election result is incorrect. Sometimes this evidence comes in the form of court testimony from a sample of invalid voters, and this testimony is used to adjust vote …
We illustrate that combining ecological data with subsample data in situations in which a linear model is appropriate provides two main benefits. First, by including the individ- ual level subsample data, the biases that are associated with linear …
Background and Objectives: The prevalence of trichomoniasis in the general population of the United States is unknown. This study provides the first population-based prevalence estimates of trichomo- niasis among young adults in the United States. …
Many questions in social research must be evaluated over time. For example, in studies of intragenerational mobility, measuring opportunity for economic advancement requires longitudinal data. The authors develop and use a class of hybrid functional …
Objectives: We measured and compared the concentration of primary and secondary syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydial infection, and genital herpes in a large county with urban, suburban, and rural settings. Methods: We geocoded sexually transmitted …
Objectives: We estimated HIV prevalence rates among young adults in the United States. Methods: We used survey data from the third wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a random sample of nearly 19000 young adults initiated in …
This is a entry in the 'The SAGE encyclopedia of social science research methods', edited by M. S. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman, and T. Futing Liao on relative distribution methods, which I was creator of. Differences among groups or changes in the …
Relative distribution methods are a nonparametric statistical approach to the comparison of distributions. These methods combine the graphical tools of exploratory data analysis with statistical summaries, decomposition, and inference. This report …