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Table 6 Five measures on the income-health relationship from fitting a gamma distribution to the transformed values of nine predicted health quantiles

From: A distributional regression approach to income-related inequality of health in Australia

 

$20,000

$80,000

Absolute difference

Relative difference

a) Smokers

E(h)

0.787 [0.779; 0.794]

0.807 [0.800; 0.813]

0.020 [0.016; 0.024]

2.46% [ 1.98%; 3.01%]

σ

0.094 [0.087; 0.101]

0.084 [0.078; 0.091]

0.010 [0.006; 0.014]

10.20% [ 6.40%; 14.39%]

Pavg

0.498 [0.467; 0.529]

0.411 [0.380; 0.443]

0.087 [0.068; 0.108]

17.41% [13.80%; 21.59%]

Pfair

0.166 [0.142; 0.193]

0.109 [0.088; 0.134]

0.057 [0.043; 0.072]

34.35% [26.39%; 42.29%]

Ppoor

0.041 [0.030; 0.055]

0.021 [0.014; 0.031]

0.020 [0.014; 0.028]

49.24% [36.96%; 60.34%]

b) Non-smokers

E(h)

0.804 [0.797; 0.810]

0.824 [0.818; 0.829]

0.020 [0.016; 0.024]

2.42% [ 1.96%; 2.94%]

σ

0.088 [0.082; 0.095]

0.078 [0.073; 0.084]

0.010 [0.006; 0.014]

11.18% [ 6.82%; 15.24%]

Pavg

0.422 [0.397; 0.453]

0.330 [0.305; 0.359]

0.093 [0.074; 0.111]

21.92% [17.62%; 26.11%]

Pfair

0.122 [0.104; 0.145]

0.072 [0.058; 0.091]

0.050 [0.037; 0.063]

40.64% [31.80%; 49.06%]

Ppoor

0.026 [0.019; 0.036]

0.011 [0.007; 0.018]

0.015 [0.009; 0.021]

56.11% [42.94%; 66.99%]

  1. Note. 95th percentile bootstrap confidence intervals denoted in brackets