Real World Health Care Data Analysis

Chapter 3: Data Examples and Simulations

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The REFLECTIONS Study

3.3 The Lindner Study

3.4 Simulations

3.5 Analysis Data Set Examples

3.5.1 Simulated REFLECTIONS Data

3.5.2 Simulated PCI Data

3.6 Summary

References

3.1 Introduction

In this chapter, we present both the core data sets that are used as examples throughout the book and demonstrate how to simulate data to mimic an existing data set. Simulations are a common tool for examining and comparing the operating characteristics of different statistical methods. One must know the true value of the parameter of interest when assessing how well a particular method performs. In simulations, as opposed to a case study from actual data, the true parameter values are known, and ...