In Reply We appreciate comments on our recent Research Letter¹ and the opportunity to respond to the points raised by Hannan and Cozzens. The New York State Department of Health reports are rigorously prepared documents with well-documented statistical methods. We concur with the methodologic points raised by Hannan and Cozzens, and we had acknowledged the report’s provision of the categorical outlier analysis in our letter.

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经皮冠状动脉介入治疗特定部位死亡率的报告—回复

回复我们感谢对我们最近的研究信件^{1 的}评论以及对 Hannan 和 Cozzens 提出的观点做出回应的机会。纽约州卫生部的报告是经过严格准备的文件，采用了记录良好的统计方法。我们同意 Hannan 和 Cozzens 提出的方法论观点，并且我们在信中承认该报告提供了分类异常值分析。