Improving statistical inference when interest focuses on the identification of extreme random effects in clustered data

当兴趣集中于识别集群数据中的极端随机效应时，改进统计推断

• 批准号: 10179473
• 负责人: Charles E McCulloch
• 金额: $ 26.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-30 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10179473
• 关键词: Address; Area; Computer software; Custom; Data; Goals; Grant; Health; Hospital Planning; Hospitals; Impaired cognition; Individual; Intervention; Investigation; Lead; Medicine; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Motivation; Outcome; Patients; Performance; Physicians; Predictive Value; ROC Curve; Research; Rewards; Sample Size; Scheme; Sensitivity and Specificity; Statistical Models; Tail; Techniques; Uncertainty; United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Weight; base; deviant; health plan; improved; interest; novel; older patient; readmission rates; simulation

PROJECT ABSTRACT Statistical models that generate predicted random effects are widely used to evaluate the status of and rank patients, physicians, hospitals and health plans from longitudinal and clustered data. Predicted random effects have been proven to outperform simpler approaches such as standard regression models, on average. These predicted random effects are often used to identify extreme or outlying values, such as elderly patients with rapid declines in their health or poorly performing hospitals. When interest focuses on the extremes rather than performance on average, there has been no systematic investigation of best approaches. We propose to develop novel methods for prediction of extreme or outlying values and systematically evaluate their performance using theoretical calculations, simulations and examples. Merely predicting extreme or outlying values is rarely sufficient and decision rules for identifying extreme values in a statistically rigorous manner are also needed. We will develop such approaches and provide easy- to-use software to implement the recommended methods.

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