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Table 2 Point Estimates and SEs for racial disparity among three comparisons

From: Assessing racial disparities in healthcare expenditure using generalized propensity score weighting

Comparison

Method

Point Estimate

Standard Error

P-value

White vs. Hispanic

Conventional ATT1

626.79

405.55

0.122

OWATT2

2386.84

225.31

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.05\))

1627.18

269.84

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.10\))

2324.48

393.45

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.15\))

3047.6

5126.87

0.552

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.05\))

1383.05

258.14

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.10\))

1898.53

207.72

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.15\))

2191.3

192.84

 < 0.001

White vs

Non-Hispanic Asian

Conventional ATT

1597.95

579.48

0.006

OWATT

2436.67

304.96

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.05\))

2679.41

421.02

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.10\))

3307.70

416.10

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.15\))

2634.83

768.38

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.05\))

2336.69

302.04

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.10\)

2552.4

267.32

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.15\))

2634.19

257.70

 < 0.001

White vs

Non-Hispanic Black

Conventional ATT

875.51

279.11

0.002

OWATT

2077.52

222.06

 < 0.001

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.05\))

873.23

323.08

0.007

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.10\))

663.21

413.79

0.109

ATT Trimming (\(\alpha =0.15\))

611.14

1506.99

0.685

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.05\))

942.46

267.42

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.10\))

912.97

255.73

 < 0.001

ATT Truncation (\(\alpha =0.15\))

918.9

247.73

 < 0.001

  1. 1The original ATT estimation based on propensity score weighting but without handling positivity assumption violation
  2. 2Overlap weighted ATT