Infant birthweight, gestational age and mortality by race/ethnicity: a non-parametric regression approach to birthweight optima identification
| dc.contributor.advisor | Frisbie, W. Parker (William Parker), 1940- | en |
| dc.creator | Echevarria-Cruz, Samuel, 1973- | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-28T23:45:31Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-11T22:18:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-08-28T23:45:31Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-11T22:18:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In order to better understand the statistical relationship between measures of birthweight and gestational age and their effects on infant mortality, national vital statistics data was examined using non-parametric regression techniques (GAM) that allow for a sophisticated and detailed analysis of infant mortality models. These models allow for various non-linear effects of birthweight and gestational age on infant mortality to be quantified based upon extant methodologies (Solis, Pullum and Frisbie, 2000). Utilizing over-time, race/ethnicand sex-specific approaches, the identification of "zones" of optimal birth outcomes based upon infant mortality probabilities is successfully accomplished. This process results from the creation of a rigorous cross-classification of GAMsupplied birthweight and gestational age parameters. From these results, I find that Non-Hispanic Black infants still exhibit an infant mortality disadvantage relative to Non-Hispanic Whites and Mexican American infants. For the four birth outcome parameters and their interactions, I find evidence of infant mortality disadvantage for infants that are early or late as well as small or heavy relative to their race/ethnic-specific, birthweight-adjusted optima. | en |
| dc.description.department | Sociology | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 180702784 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3399 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Birth weight--United States--Statistical methods | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Infants--Mortality--United States--Statistical methods | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gestational age--United States--Statistical methods | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mortality and race--United States--Statistical methods | en |
| dc.title | Infant birthweight, gestational age and mortality by race/ethnicity: a non-parametric regression approach to birthweight optima identification | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Infant birth weight, gestational age and mortality by race/ethnicity | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Non-parametric regression approach to birthweight optima identification | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Non-parametric regression approach to birth weight optima identification | en |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en |