Estimating lifetime or episode-of-illnes
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Anirban Basu; Willard G. Manning
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Many analyses of healthcare costs involve use of data with varying periods of observation and right censoring of cases before death or at the end of the episode of illness. The prominence of observations with no expenditure for some short periods of observation and the extreme skewness