Generalized modeling approaches to risk adjustment of skewed outcomes data

There are two broad classes of models used to address the econometric problems caused by skewness in data commonly encountered in health care applications: (1) transformation to deal with skewness (e.g., ordinary least square (OLS) on ln( y)); and (2) alternative weighting approaches based on expone...

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Volume:	24
Main Author:	Manning, Willard G Basu, Anirban Mullahy, John
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 2005 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Elsevier
published in:	Journal of health economics Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 465 - 488
Data of publication:	2005
ISSN:	0167-6296 1879-1646
EISSN:	1879-1646
Discipline:	Public Health Economics
Series:	Journal of Health Economics
Subjects:	Skewed outcomes Log models Health econometrics Generalized linear models Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Care Sciences & Services Business & Economics Health Policy & Services Science & Technology Risk Adjustment - statistics & numerical data Models, Statistical United States Risk Adjustment - methods Usage Statistical methods Research Information management Medical economics Econometric models Models Health administration United States Skewed outcomes C5 Log models Health econometrics C1 Generalized linear models health econometrics generalized linear models RETRANSFORMATION log models skewed outcomes GAMMA-DISTRIBUTION
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