期刊
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
卷 20, 期 4, 页码 461-494出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6296(01)00086-8
关键词
health econometrics; transformation; retransformation; log models
资金
- NIAAA NIH HHS [AA10392, AA10393] Funding Source: Medline
Health economists often use log models to deal with skewed outcomes, such as health utilization or health expenditures. The literature provides a number of alternative estimation approaches for log models, including ordinary least-squares on In(y) and generalized linear models. This study examines how well the alternative estimators behave econometrically in terms of bias and precision when the data are skewed or have other common data problems (heteroscedasticity, heavy tails, etc.). No single alternative is best under all conditions examined. The paper provides a straightforward algorithm for choosing among the alternative estimators. Even if the estimators considered are consistent, there can be major losses in precision from selecting a less appropriate estimator. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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