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- Title
Missing.... presumed at random: cost-analysis of incomplete data.
- Authors
Andrew Briggs; Taane Clark; Jane Wolstenholme; Philip Clarke
- Abstract
When collecting patient-level resource use data for statistical analysis, for some patients and in some categories of resource use, the required count will not be observed. Although this problem must arise in most reported economic evaluations containing patient-level data, it is rare for authors to detail how the problem was overcome. Statistical packages may default to handling missing data through a so-called complete case analysis, while some recent cost-analyses have appeared to favour an available case approach. Both of these methods are problematic: complete case analysis is inefficient and is likely to be biased; available case analysis, by employing different numbers of observations for each resource use item, generates severe problems for standard statistical inference. Instead we explore imputation methods for generating replacement values for missing data that will permit complete case analysis using the whole data set and we illustrate these methods using two data sets that had incomplete resource use information. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
COST analysis; MATHEMATICAL statistics; PATIENTS; STATISTICS; COST accounting; HEALTH services administration
- Publication
Health Economics, 2003, Vol 12, Issue 5, p377
- ISSN
1057-9230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hec.766