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Hartman, Nicholas; He, Kevin

Individualized empirical null estimation for exact tests of healthcare quality. (English) Zbl 07923580

Stat. Med. 43, No. 12, 2403-2420 (2024).

MSC:

62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

Keywords:

empirical null; health policy; healthcare provider profiling; unobserved confounding
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