Charles F. Manski

Assessing the estimands and estimates of hospitalization rates in health economics and clinical medicine

Even though data on hospital admissions are widely used in health research, hospitalization‐related estimands measured using these data are not always clearly conceptualized. Consequently, estimators of these quantities can have unclear rationales and undesirable properties. We e...

Translating etiological effect measures into medical test evaluation metrics

Abstract Traditional metrics for medical test evaluation (TE) and etiological evaluation (EE) are often analyzed within separate frameworks. We review these metrics, including recommendations to use less frequently used TE metrics. We propose a novel framework for TE by drawing f...