This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appreared in the economic literature. The framework bears a close relationship to econometric models of descrete choice and therefore holds the potential for rendering interactions models...

This paper puts forth a concept of Adptivety Rational Equilibrium (A.R.E) where agents base decisions upon predictions of future values of endogenous variables whose actual values are determined by equilibrium equations.

This paper combines techniques drawn from the literature on evolutionary optimization algorithms along with bootstrap based statistical tests. Bootstrapping is used as a general framework for estimating objectives out of sample by redrawing subsets from a training sample. Evolution is used to...

Most health management programs, such as disease management or health promotion/wellness interventions, implement targeted interventions for an identified high-risk group, leaving the remaining non-managed lower-risk population as controls. This is problematic from an outcomes perspective...

Objective: Diagnosis-based risk-adjustment measures are increasingly being promoted as disease management tools. We compared the ability of several types of predictive models to identify future high-risk older people likely to benefit from disease management. Study design: Veterans Health...

The US disease management (DM) industry continues to endorse the use of the methodologically flawed pre-post design to evaluate financial outcomes, which regularly reports returns on investment of up to 8___1. This is in sharp contrast to the peer-reviewed literature and large Medicare...