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Huang Huang Author

Subjects of specialization
Public and private sector rehabilitation ,Addiction; ,Substance Abuse and Psychiatric Disorders,technology,toxicology

Affiliation
Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Biography

Huang Huang is currently working in Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, also interested in different medical diseases and terminologies and also have keen interest in their treatment.

Publications

Research Article Open Access

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Consistent Reporting of Smoking-Related Behaviors

Author(s):

Julia N Soulakova, Huang Huang and Lisa J Crockett

This study assessed the effect of race/ethnicity on the prevalence of inconsistent reports regarding ever smoking, time since smoking cessation, and age of initiating regular smoking. We used the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey data, which came from a test-retest reliability study, and considered three racial/ethnic subpopulations, Hispanics, Non-Hispanic (NH) Blacks and NH Whites. Initial exploration of highly disagreeing reports of time since smoking cessation and age of onset of regular smoking initiation indicated that the majority of these reports corresponded to NH Whites. However, the proportion of the extremely discrepant reports was very small (less than 0.8%), and these reports were not included in the main analyses. Univari... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-9005.1000147

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