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Impact of alternative approaches to assess outlying and influential observations on health care costs

The distributions of medical costs are often skewed to the right because small numbers of patients use large amounts of health care resources. Using data from a study of colon cancer costs, we show, by example, the impact and magnitude of outliers and influential observations on health care costs an...

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Autores principales: Weichle, Thomas, Hynes, Denise M, Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon, Tarlov, Elizabeth, Zhang, Qiuying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24303338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-614