Inflated assessments of disability

N. T. Longford

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.

To appear in Journal of Applied Statistics 43, 2016.

September 2016