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Estimation of the retransformed conditional mean in health care cost studies

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  • Huixia Judy Wang
  • Xiao-Hua Zhou

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We propose a new approach for analyzing skewed and heteroscedastic health care cost data through regression of the conditional quantiles of the transformed cost. Using the appealing equivariance property of quantiles to monotone transformations, we propose a distribution-free estimator of the conditional mean cost on the original scale. The proposed method is extended to a two-part heteroscedastic model to account for zero costs commonly seen in health care cost studies. Simulation studies indicate that the proposed estimator has competitive and more robust performance than existing estimators in various heteroscedastic models. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

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  • Huixia Judy Wang & Xiao-Hua Zhou, 2010. "Estimation of the retransformed conditional mean in health care cost studies," Biometrika, Biometrika Trust, vol. 97(1), pages 147-158.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:biomet:v:97:y:2010:i:1:p:147-158
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    1. Leorato, Samantha & Peracchi, Franco & Tanase, Andrei V., 2012. "Asymptotically efficient estimation of the conditional expected shortfall," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 56(4), pages 768-784.
    2. Borislava Mihaylova & Andrew Briggs & Anthony O'Hagan & Simon G. Thompson, 2011. "Review of statistical methods for analysing healthcare resources and costs," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(8), pages 897-916, August.

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