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Washington State Convention & Trade Center = “CC”, Grand Hyatt Seattle = “H”

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333 Applied Session Tue, 8/8/06, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-206
New Approaches to Modeling Costs and Other Health Outcomes - Contributed - Papers
Section on Health Policy Statistics, Biometrics Section
Chair(s): Mark Glickman, Boston University
     2:05 PM   Performance of Statistical Models To Predict Mental Health and Substance Abuse CostMaria Montez, Boston University; Cindy Christiansen, Boston University; Susan L. Ettner, University of California, Los Angeles; Susan Loveland, Boston University; Amy K. Rosen, Boston University
     2:20 PM   Use of Risk-Adjustment Models To Predict Future High Medical Cost Cases: Is the Model Performance Sensitive to the Time Intervals in Claims Data?Ya-Chen Tina Shih, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; Lirong Zhao, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; Ying Xu, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
     2:35 PM   Two-stage Samples and the Minimum Sum Method for Medicare Fraud InvestigationsIliana Ignatova, University of South Carolina
     2:50 PM   Experiences with a Virtual Regionalization Model for Cardiac SurgeryEdward Wegman, George Mason University; Yasmin H. Said, Johns Hopkins University; Shabib A. Alhadheri, SUNY Upstate Medical University
     3:05 PM   The LASSO-Patternsearch Algorithm and Its Application to Data from the Beaver Dam Eye StudyWeiliang Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kristine Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ronald Klein, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Barbara E.K. Klein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
     3:20 PM   On the Equivalence of Medical Cost Estimators with Censored DataHeejung Bang, Cornell University; Hongwei Zhao, University of Rochester; Phillip E. Pfeifer, University of Virginia; Hongkun Wang, University of Virginia
     3:35 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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