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Hunger, M. ; Baumert, J.J. ; Holle, R.

Analysis of SF-6D index data: Is beta regression appropriate?

Value Health 14, 759-767 (2011)
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BACKGROUND: Preference-weighted index scores of health-related quality of life are commonly skewed to the left and bounded at one. Beta regression is used in various disciplines to address the specific features of bounded outcome variables such as heteroscedasticity, but has rarely been used in the context of health-related quality of life measures. We aimed to examine if beta regression is appropriate for analyzing the relationship between subject characteristics and SF-6D index scores. METHODS: We used data from the population-based German KORA F4 study. Besides classical beta regression, we also fitted extended beta regression models by allowing a regression structure on the precision parameter. Regression coefficients and predictive accuracy of the models were compared to those from a linear regression model with model-based and robust standard errors. RESULTS: The beta distribution fitted the empirical distribution of the SF-6D index better than the normal distribution. Extended beta regression performed best in terms of predictive accuracy but confidence intervals of the fit measures suggested that no model was superior to the others. Age had a significant negative effect on the precision parameter indicating higher variation of health utilities in older age groups. The observations reporting perfect health had a high influence on model results. CONCLUSIONS: Beta regression, especially with precision covariates is a possible supplement to the methods currently used in the analysis of health utility data. In particular, it accounted for the boundedness and heteroscedasticity of the SF-6D index. A pitfall of the beta regression is that it does not work well in handling one-valued observations.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter beta regression; dispersion covariates; health-related quality of life; heteroscedasticity; SF-6D
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Veröffentlichungsjahr 2011
HGF-Berichtsjahr 2011
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1098-3015
e-ISSN 1524-4733
Zeitschrift Value in Health
Quellenangaben Band: 14, Heft: 5, Seiten: 759-767 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Elsevier
Verlagsort New York, NY
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM)
Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)
POF Topic(s) 30202 - Environmental Health
Forschungsfeld(er) Genetics and Epidemiology
PSP-Element(e) G-505300-002
G-504000-002
G-504090-001
PubMed ID 21839416
DOI 10.1016/j.jval.2010.12.009
Scopus ID 80052507909
Erfassungsdatum 2011-10-05
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