Inflated assessments of disability

Nicholas T. Longford

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2017, vol. 44, issue 10, 1743-1760

Abstract: A medical examination provides a key input into decisions about disability pension and other forms of income support or compensation that are justified on medical grounds. The result of examining an individual is often communicated by means of a score, and inflation of such scores is a well-known problem. We estimate the extent of inflation of scores from a set of disability assessments using a model based on the discrete linear distribution. We explore some extensions within the framework of a sensitivity analysis.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1221914

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