Assessing the equality of means of healthcare costs.

Abstract:

:The main analytic problems for assessing the equality of means of healthcare costs are the skewed and heteroscedastic nature of the distribution of healthcare costs and the occurrence of persons with zero cost values. Without taking these special features into consideration, any statistical method may lead to the wrong conclusion. The available analytic methods that are appropriate for handling these features of healthcare costs are reviewed.

authors

Zhou XH,Ramsey S

doi

10.1586/14737167.3.5.561

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-10-01 00:00:00

pages

561-7

issue

5

eissn

1473-7167

issn

1744-8379

journal_volume

3

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