Chapter 13

Application II: Medical and health-care informatics, economics, business, and finance

Abstract

This chapter extends our discussion of applications for meta-analytics by moving beyond the fields of mathematics, engineering, and technology to the fields of health care, economics, business, and finance. While only a selected few applications are highlighted, the case is made for the general utility of meta-analytic approaches to virtually any field in which analytics plays a role. In health care, an emphasis on anonymization (deidentification) of data is explored. In economics, we consider models for production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services using two or more analytic approaches and employ a factor/subfactor approach ...

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