Sentences with phrase «if socioeconomic differences»

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.

Not exact matches

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

A new study shows that if socioeconomic factors related to patients» income and education are taken into account, differences in readmission rates among hospitals may not be as great as Medicare data indicate.

This simple example illustrates that eliminating the average difference across the two groups will only remove all differences by socioeconomic status if there are no differences in outcomes by socioeconomic status within the broad income groups.

Differences in ages, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and IQ between the included and excluded samples were analyzed by using parametric tests if normality and homogeneity assumptions were satisfied; otherwise, the non-parametric Mann — Whitney U test was used.