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The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts
Socius, 2022 Although extreme and rising levels of U.S. wealth inequality have generated much public and scientific interest, building intuition on the shape and scale of today’s wealth distribution remains difficult. Prior research tends to conceptualize and measure
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Asher Dvir-Djerassi
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Comparison and relative utility of inequality measurements: as applied to Scotland’s child dental health [PDF]
, 2013 This study compared and assessed the utility of tests of inequality on a series of very large population caries datasets. National cross-sectional caries datasets for Scotland’s 5-year-olds in 1993/94 (n = 5,078); 1995/96 (n = 6,240); 1997/98 (n = 6,584);
A Low +33 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Developing countries like India grapple with significant challenges due to the double burden of communicable and non-communicable disease in older adults.
Jhumki Kundu, Ruchira Chakraborty
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The role of socio-economic inequality in the prevalence of hypertension in adults [PDF]
Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, 2019 Introduction: The large portion of burden of diseases, especially in the developing countries is attributed to hypertension. Identification of the potential risk factors of hypertension is essential for disease management.
Yousef Veisani +4 more
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Noncommutative martingale concentration inequalities [PDF]
Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 2014 We establish an Azuma type inequality under a Lipshitz condition for martingales in the framework of noncommutative probability spaces and apply it to deduce a noncommutative Heoffding inequality as well as a noncommutative McDiarmid type inequality. We also provide a noncommutative Azuma inequality for noncommutative supermartingales in which instead ...
Sadeghi, Ghadir, Moslehian, Mohammad Sal
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Concentration inequalities for sampling without replacement [PDF]
, 2015 Concentration inequalities quantify the deviation of a random variable from a fixed value. In spite of numerous applications, such as opinion surveys or ecological counting procedures, few concentration results are known for the setting of sampling ...
Bardenet, Rémi +1 more
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Income-related inequality and decomposition of edentulism among aged people in China
BMC Oral Health, 2022 Background The aim of this study was to assess the income-related inequality of edentulism among the aged in China and identify the contributing factors.
Shuo Du +18 more
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Nutritional status at the early stages of children’s lives is essential for growth and development not only in infancy but also in adult life.
Abdollah ALMASIAN KIA +4 more
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Stein’s method for concentration inequalities [PDF]
Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2006 15 pages.
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 Background Childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions for child health. Still, many children are not able to receive completed immunization status.
Owais Raza +3 more
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