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Research study · 2019

Doctor’s Preference in Providing Medical Service for Patients in the Medical Alliance: A Pilot Discrete Choice Experiment

Explore the published experiment and its available replication evidence.

Richard Huan Xu · Xu2020

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01 / Human finding

What the study found

A reviewed summary is not available in this registry. Consult the published paper for the original finding.

Answer-key review: Not reviewed

02 / Experiment design

Who chose, and what varied

Country
China
Human respondents
Not recorded
Attributes
3
Task
discrete choice

03 / Synthetic replication

Registry replication results

Current replication

Spearman rank correlation

Not measured

No current measurement is available in this registry.

Paper-era reference

2023 CLM mean Spearman ρ

Not measured

Historical results use their original estimator and reference. They are not a matched comparison with the current run.

Detailed replication evidence · 2026-10-31

Right direction on all 10 significant effects, partial ranking (ρ = 0.73); sizes not comparable (the paper reports logit coefficients).

Use it to screen which attributes move choice; sizes need the paper's respondent data.

Inspect the measured run ↗

direction
holds
rank
mixed
size
not comparable

Supported uses

  • Screening which attributes move choice, and in which direction.

Limits to keep in view

  • Ranking close levels against each other; the order diverges from humans.
  • Effect sizes in the paper's units; only direction, rank and shape are compared.

Effects on a common scale

Human effects: logit coefficient. Synthetic effects are multiplied by the record’s calibration factor, k = 2.9322. Calibration aligns magnitude; it does not establish agreement in unadjusted effect sizes.

● Human   ◆ Calibrated synthetic · Lines show human 95% intervals where available.
-1.5401.54Increment in working time per week: 1 h moreIncrement in working time per week: 1 h mor…Increment in working time per week: 2 h moreIncrement in working time per week: 2 h mor…Increment in working time per week: 3 h moreIncrement in working time per week: 3 h mor…Increment in working time per week: 4 h moreIncrement in working time per week: 4 h mor…Increment in the income per month: 15% moreIncrement in the income per month: 15% moreIncrement in the income per month: 20% moreIncrement in the income per month: 20% moreIncrement in the income per month: 25% moreIncrement in the income per month: 25% moreIncrement in the income per month: 30% moreIncrement in the income per month: 30% moreLocation of working hospital: SuburbLocation of working hospital: SuburbLocation of working hospital: DowntownLocation of working hospital: Downtown
Human and calibrated synthetic effects
Attribute / levelHumanHuman 95% half-widthCalibrated synthetic
Increment in working time per week: 1 h more1.400Not measured1.327
Increment in working time per week: 2 h more1.010Not measured0.849
Increment in working time per week: 3 h more0.700Not measured0.725
Increment in working time per week: 4 h more0.460Not measured1.167
Increment in working time per week: 5 h more (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Increment in the income per month: 10% more (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Increment in the income per month: 15% more0.290Not measured0.715
Increment in the income per month: 20% more0.800Not measured0.367
Increment in the income per month: 25% more0.890Not measured0.378
Increment in the income per month: 30% more1.190Not measured0.925
Location of working hospital: County (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Location of working hospital: Suburb0.310Not measured0.226
Location of working hospital: Downtown0.750Not measured1.120

Subgroups · screen, not a result

Split by sex: 3 of 6 significant differences keep their direction in the simulation (19% to 81%)

screen, not a result. Each row is the female group’s effect minus the male group’s, human in logit, simulated on the simulation’s own scale, so compare direction, not size. A Jev fast-small screen makes no comparison claim.

Sign agreement
3/6, 50%
95% interval
19% to 81%
Shuffle null
51%, p 0.40
Shape ρ
0.64, null p 0.17
Scale ratio
1.59×
Respondents per group
GroupSimulated nPeople nρ vs paper
female98not given0.22
male97not given0.35
Group differences: female minus male
Attribute / levelPeople Δ (95%)SignificantSimulated Δ (own scale)Direction
Increment in working time per week: 4 h more+0.49 ±0.36yes-0.04 ±0.13opposite
Increment in working time per week: 3 h more+0.64 ±0.38yes+0.05 ±0.12same direction
Increment in working time per week: 2 h more+0.74 ±0.36yes-0.05 ±0.13opposite
Increment in working time per week: 1 h more+0.76 ±0.36yes-0.02 ±0.11opposite
Increment in the income per month: 15% more+0.06 ±0.29no-0.08 ±0.16not compared
Increment in the income per month: 20% more+0.12 ±0.35no+0.02 ±0.10not compared
Increment in the income per month: 25% more-0.01 ±0.31no-0.07 ±0.12not compared
Increment in the income per month: 30% more+0.14 ±0.47no-0.03 ±0.18not compared
Location of working hospital: Suburb+0.46 ±0.33yes+0.04 ±0.11same direction
Location of working hospital: Downtown+0.90 ±0.41yes+0.07 ±0.11same direction

People’s female coefficients are 1.59× the other group’s, so raw differences mix preference with answer consistency; read the shape ρ beside them. Interval: Wilson 95% on the significant differences. Shuffle null: groups reassigned at random among the simulated respondents. Scored from screen run c33f5175-1212-489d-a4a8-a308cbfdc6f0, W&B score ↗.

04 / Evidence and limitations

Follow the evidence

Missing results mean unmeasured, not zero agreement.

  • missing parent paper url
  • missing canonical pdf
  • missing historic score
  • missing resolved wandb run
Measurement provenance

Registry revision: 648f40378e9c. Estimator: ols.