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Table 3 Specification tests for various estimators

From: A review of statistical estimators for risk-adjusted length of stay: analysis of the Australian and new Zealand intensive care adult patient data-base, 2008–2009

 

Correlation

Residuals

Hosmer-Lemeshow (F) test

Copas test

 

LP vs residuals

Skewness

Kurtosis

Determination

Validation

 

OLS raw scale @

1.00

4.33

32.74

0.0001

0.0001

0.996(0.993, 0.998)

OLS log scale @

0.03

0.25

3.58

0.0001

0.0001

1.079(1.063, 1.094)

LMM log scale @

0.008

0.25

3.76

0.0001

0.0001

1.054(1.036, 1.072)

Treatment effects model: log scale

0.150

0.27

3.58

0.0001

0.0001

1.043(1.025, 1.062)

GLM: family(Poisson), link(log) #

0.0001

2.37

13.41

0.0001

0.0001

0.940(0.899, 0.981)

GLM: family(negative binomial), link(log) #

0.0001

1.59

8.14

0.0001

0.0001

0.967(0.926, 1.008)

GLM: family(gamma), link(log) #

0.0001

1.26

6.60

0.0001

0.0001

0.923(0.882, 0.965)

GLM: family(inverse Gaussian), link(log) #

0.0002

0.20

4.98

0.0001

0.0001

0.776(0.717, 0.835)

EEE: raw scale

0.002

4.25

32.44

0.0001

0.002

0.956(0.957,0.958)

Skew- t regression: log scale

0.0001

0.31

3.59

0.0001

0.0001

1.085(1.065, 1.105)

Skew normal regression: log scale

0.0001

0.32

3.56

0.0001

0.0001

1.134 (1.113, 1.155

FMM: raw scale

0.0001

4.68

33.70

0.0001

0.0001

0.795(0.737, 0.852)

  1. LP, linear predictor. @, standardised residuals [13]. #, Deviance residuals [68].