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| CE_28C | Tue, 8/5/08, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CC-204 |
| Analysis of Censored Health Outcomes Data: Developments for the Last 10 Years - Continuing Education - Course | ||
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ASA, Biopharmaceutical Section, Section on Health Policy Statistics |
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| Instructor(s): Hongwei Zhao, University of Rochester, Heejung Bang, Weill Medical College of Cornell University | ||
| Medical cost and quality-adjusted lifetime are common health outcomes data from clinical trials and observational studies. Although these data look different, they share many statistical properties and can be understood in a unified framework. Just like standard survival data, censoring is an important issue in these data. Despite the analogy, censoring mechanism is informative, different from the traditional paradigm. It has been a decade since it was shown that the use of most standard statistical techniques (e.g., sample mean, linear regression, and Kaplan-Meier estimator) can be invalid. However, we often find that even experienced researchers still use traditional methods for the analysis of health outcome data in practice. In this course, we will review valid methods for statistical estimation and inference that have been developed in last 10 years. Unfortunately, not all are easy or user-friendly, and no commercial software is available so far. Therefore, we will suggest methods as practical solutions for practitioners. We also will present the analytic relationships among well-known medical cost estimators recently identified. Extended applications to customer lifetime value and cost-effectiveness analysis will be discussed. Course prerequisite is basic knowledge of survival analysis. | ||
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JSM 2008
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