What Do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?
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Summary
This paper makes use of a unique data set that matches a variety of self-reports of health with respondents’ medical records and finds that these measures are subject to considerable response error resulting in large attenuation biases when they are used as explanatory variables.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2004-10-02
- Cited by
- 531
- References
- 22
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1871175948
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153425413
Keywords
Variance (accounting), Incidence (geometry), Medicine, Variety (cybernetics), Set (abstract data type)
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