Journal article
Generalized Additive Models for the Analysis of EQ-5D Utility Data
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Measured utility data have a discrete distribution, and the discreteness is particularly pronounced for EQ-5D utilities. Given the discreteness of the data, modeling the distribution parametrically is likely to be difficult. Moreover, since the distribution is bounded, the linearity assumptions made by many models are questionable. This article suggests using semi-parametric models and illustrates the use of generalized additive …
Authors
Pullenayegum EM; Wong HS; Childs A
Journal
Medical Decision Making, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 244–251
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
February 2013
DOI
10.1177/0272989x12465354
ISSN
0272-989X