Daniel A. Relles

Adjunct Staff
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in statistics, Yale University

Overview

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Developing a prospective payment system for Medicare rehabilitation care
  • Improving the Army stockage determination process

Selected Publications

Paul Lee, Catherine A. Jackson, Daniel A. Relle, Demand-based assessment of workforce requirements for orthopaedic services, RAND Corporation, 1998

R.M. Stolzenberg and D. Relles, "Tools for Intuition About Sample Selection Bias and its Correction," American Sociological Review, 62(3):494-507, 1997

P.P. Lee, C.A. Jackson, D.A. Relles, "Estimating Eye Care Workforce Supply and Requirements," Ophthalmology, 102(12):1964-1972, 1995

R.M. Stolzenberg and D. Relles, "Foreign Student Academic Performance in U.S. Graduate Schools," Social Science Research, 20:74-92, 1991

Grace M. Carter, Joseph P. Newhouse, Daniel A. Relles, How Much Change in the Case Mix Index Is DRG Creep? RAND Corporation, 1990

R.M. Stolzenberg and D. Relles, "Theory Testing in a World of Constrained Research Design: The Significance of Heckman's Censored Sampling Bias Correction for Nonexperimental Research," Sociological Methods and Research, 18(May):395-415, 1990

R.M. Stolzenberg and D. Relles, "The Utility of Empirical Bayes Methods for Comparing Regression Structures in Small Subsamples," Sociological Methodology, 19:183-211, 1989

Emmett B. Keeler, Daniel A. Relles, John E. Rolph, The Choice between Family and Individual Deductibles in Health Insurance, RAND Corporation, 1975

Publications

Possible Refinements to the Construction of Function-Related Groups for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System - 2005

Dollar Cost Banding: A New Algorithm for Computing Inventory Levels for Army Supply Support Activities - 2004

Measuring Function for Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Payment - 2003

Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System - 2002

Data Mining and the Implementation of a Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Rehabilitation - 2002

Executive Summary of Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System - 2002

Right Price, Fair Credit: Criteria to Improve Financial Incentives for Army Logistics Decisions - 2002

Workplan for the Monitoring and Refinement of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System - 2002

Updating the Classification System for the Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System - 2001

Dollars and Sense: A Process Improvement Approach to Logistics Financial Management - 2000

Evaluating Five Proposed Price and Credit Policies for the Army - 2000

Interim Report on an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System - 2000

Work Plan for an Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System - 2000

Demand-based assessment of workforce requirements for orthopaedic services - 1998

Measurement of USMC Logistics Processes: Creating a Baseline to Support Precision Logistics Implementations - 1998

Subspecialty Distributions of Ophthalmologists in the Workforce - 1998

Estimating Eye Care Provider Supply and Workforce Requirements - 1995

Estimating Eye Care Provider Supply and Workforce Requirements - 1995

An Approach to Understanding the Value of Parts - 1994

Using Value to Manage Repair Parts - 1993

Improving Naval Aviation Depot Responsiveness - 1992

Has DRG Creep Crept Up? Decomposing the Case Mix Index Change Between 1987 and 1988 - 1991

The Robust Separation Projection Method for Predicting Monthly Losses of Air Force Enlisted Personnel - 1991

How Much Change in the Case Mix Index Is DRG Creep? - 1990

Theory Testing in a World of Constrained Research Design - 1990

What's on the Year-At-Risk File - 1989

Allocating Research Resources: The Role of a Data Management Core Unit - 1986

A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Terrorist Groups - 1985

Medical Student Financing and the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program - 1982

Sample selection procedure for St. Joseph County, Indiana - 1981

Selecting the baseline sample of residential properties : site II - 1981

Using Weights to Estimate Population Parameters from Survey Records - 1981

Oil and Energy Demand in Developing Countries in 1990 - 1980

The Demand for Oil and Energy in Developing Countries - 1980

Appendix C to Summary Report: New Measures of Diabetic Patient Behavior, Knowledge, and Attitudes - 1979

An Empirical Study of the Differences Between Family and Individual Deductibles in Health Insurance - 1977

The Enrollment Effects of Federal Student Aid Policies. - 1977

A Bayesian Model of Choice among Higher Education Institutions - 1976

Recent Research Insights into Local Migration Flows. - 1975

Statisticians Are Fairly Robust Estimators of Location. - 1975

The Choice between Family and Individual Deductibles in Health Insurance - 1975

The Transition from High School to College: A Study of Freshman Enrollments in Florida. - 1975

A Method for Monitoring Small-Area Population Changes in Cities. - 1974

A Distributed Lag Model of Employment Levels in Seattle. - 1973

Clustering by Scenario with Special Application to Two-Way Tables of Counts. - 1973

Seattle's Adaptation to Recession - 1973