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Table 5 AAFs (in %) for liver cirrhosis and corresponding 95% confidence intervals for subpopulations as defined by sex and ethnicity based on different distributions

From: Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example

Sex

Ethnicity

Continuous AAF from shifted distribution*

Standard Error

95% Confidence interval

    

Lower Bound

Upper Bound

Men

White

72.3

0.45

71.4

73.2

Men

Black

73.2

0.49

72.2

74.2

Men

Native

76.1

0.83

74.5

77.7

Men

Asian/Pac. Islander

49.7

0.98

47.8

51.6

Men

Hispanic

71.3

0.47

70.4

72.2

Women

White

73.5

0.24

73.0

74.0

Women

Black

75.1

0.26

74.6

75.6

Women

Native

82.3

0.45

81.4

83.2

Women

Asian/Pac. Islander

63.4

0.81

61.8

65.0

Women

Hispanic

71.7

0.34

71.0

72.4

  1. * The gamma distributions were shifted upward to the level of the per capita data.