4 Sales delay is the time interval from the date of manufacture to the date of sale. In analysing 5 warranty claims data, the existing research relating to the sales delay has mainly focused 6 on estimating the probability distribution of the sales delay. Longer sales delay may lead 7 to more warranty claims as it can have an impact on the post-sale reliability of products. 8 However, research ...

BACKGROUND The frequency of polypectomy is an important indicator of quality assurance for population-based colorectal cancer screening programs. Although administrative databases of physician claims provide population-level data on the performance of polypectomy, the accuracy of the procedure codes has not been examined. We determined the level of agreement between physician claims for polypec...

Claims data have become common during the past two decades. The electronic records include information entered on bills (claims) submitted by healthcare providers to third-party payers. They are an attractive data source; however, they contain limitations that threaten the validity of studies that use them. We reviewed 168 studies that employed claims data, published during 2000-2005 in five he...

background we aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians’ drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse.   methods we applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians’ prescription claims. it involved 5 ste...

• In the insurance area, especially based on observations of the number of claims, N(w), corresponding to an exposure w, and on observations of the total amount of claims incurred, Y (w), the risk theory arises to quantify risks and to fit models of pricing and insurance company ruin. However, the main problem is the complexity to obtain the distribution function of Y (w) and, consequently, the...