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Abstract
The analysis of health care costs is complicated by the skewed and heteroscedastic nature of their distribution with possibly additional zero values. Statistical methods that do not adjust for these features can lead to incorrect conclusions. This paper reviews recent developments in statistical methods for the analysis of health care costs; our focus is on population means.Mesh:
Year: 2002 PMID: 12197300 DOI: 10.1191/0962280202sm290ra
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stat Methods Med Res ISSN: 0962-2802 Impact factor: 3.021