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Rules for removing outliers and tests based on parametric models for estimating and comparing average length of stay
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A robust method for reviewing variance explained by diagnosis related groups
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Medicare program; change in methodology or determining payment for extraordinarily high-cost (cost outliers) under acute care hospital inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment systems
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Splus functions for truncated and weighted means of asymmetric distributions: Weibull, Gamma, and Lognormal cases
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