Distribution – Healthcare Economist

Why not to use a normal distribution to approximate a binomial distribution

2009-04-28Jason ShafrinLeave a comment

Most people know that under the central limit theory claims, the distribution of the mean of a distribution will be normally distributed as the number of observations gets large. The question is, if we have a series of discrete events that we want to approximate the distribution of the mean with a continuous distribution, should we estimate…

Vaccine Logistics

2008-03-19Jason Shafrin

Vaccination is one of the most cost effective medical treatments we have. It is important that providers vaccines in a timely manner. In attempt to streamline vaccine distribution systems, the CDC created Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project (VMBIP). Instead of having providers place orders with the grantee (i.e.: state health department), and then having the…