The Impact of Outliers on Net-Benefit Regression Model in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.

Ordinary least square (OLS) in regression has been widely used to analyze patient-level data in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). However, the estimates, inference and decision making in the economic evaluation based on OLS estimation may be biased by the presence of outliers. Instead, robust estim...

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Main Authors: Yu-Wen Wen, Yi-Wen Tsai, David Bin-Chia Wu, Pei-Fen Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3686836?pdf=render