Power of tests for a dichotomous independent variable measured with error

Health Services Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1085-1101

  McCaffrey, Daniel F ^a   Elliott, Marc N ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Geocoding; Measurement error; Methodology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICARE; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FORECASTING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDICARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43049133801     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00810.x     Document Type: Article

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