Day: March 7, 2013

Why weight?

Austin Frakt March 7, 2013

From “What Are We Weighting For?” by Gary Solon, Steven Haider, and Jeffrey Wooldridge: At the beginning of their textbook’s section on weighted estimation of regression

Chart of the day: The USPSTF effect

Austin Frakt March 7, 2013

I’d bet the blog that most members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force aren’t satisfied that over 40% of men 75 years old and

Cost shifting is still not a thing

Austin Frakt March 7, 2013

A clever, new paper shows that hospitals don’t cost shift, in general. But that’s not all! Read about it in my new post on the

Day: March 7, 2013

Why weight?

Chart of the day: The USPSTF effect

Cost shifting is still not a thing

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